Incident date: 2017-12-15
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was mixing dressing in a 500-pound mixer when his right hand entered the machine, amputating his second, third, and fourth fingers from the distal phalanges to the second knuckle. The mixer was guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high