Incident date: 2018-03-30
NAICS industry code: 311423

An employee's right hand was inside a pneumatic-powered slide gate of a blender clearing debris when the slide gate valve amputated the employee's index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
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