Incident date: 2024-08-06
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was using a de-boning machine on chicken legs when the rotating punch on the machine caught their glove and finger, resulting in amputation of their right index finger to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high