Incident date: 2024-06-05
NAICS industry code: 424430

A maintenance employee was installing a mechanical valve in the raw milk intake bay and testing it for operation when his finger became caught in the valve. It was activated and amputated his fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Dairy and milk processing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high