Incident date: 2017-12-21
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was performing maintenance on a breast skinner with another employee and had opened a magnetic interlock door to halt the machine's operation. The other employee held a wrench close to the interlock and the machine engaged, pulling the maintenance employee's right hand between a sprocket and chain. The employee suffered a pinky finger amputation and partial ring finger amputation. The machine was energized at the time of the incident.

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