Incident date: 2018-11-28
NAICS industry code: 311412

On November 28, 2018, at 9:40 a.m., an employee was removing some meat bins from the meat grinder. As he was removing a meat bin, he was holding the top of the meat mixer cover open. The cover accidentally closed on his finger, injuring the middle finger on his left hand. The injury resulted in a surgical amputation of his left middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Meat grinders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high