Incident date: 2019-04-16
NAICS industry code: 311340

An employee was placing a bag over a motor to start clean-up procedures on a mixer when his right hand was caught between a belt and pulley. The middle and right ring fingers were severed to the second knuckle. The index and small fingers were also damaged. The mixer was still running at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high