Incident date: 2019-07-17
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was sanitizing equipment when the auger from a meat grinder amputated their right index finger. The machine was energized at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Meat grinders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high