Incident date: 2024-11-15
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was working on a frozen block grinder and removing a stuck 60-pound frozen meat block from the grinder when their right index fingertip was amputated.

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