Incident date: 2024-04-22
NAICS industry code: 311351

On April 22, 2024, at about 8:20 AM, an employee was cleaning fudge and caramel build-up from the underside of the grate of a peanut chain conveyor on a forming machine. The conveyor caught their right index fingertip between a puck and the metal opening to the conveyor tube, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high