Incident date: 2024-04-15
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was cleaning out a discharge chute when the tip of his right index finger contacted the chute, resulting in an amputation. The chute was guarded at the time of the incident.

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