Incident date: 2024-11-11
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was adjusting the guide wheel on a dough preparation machine. The employee removed a ball of dough and her right hand was caught in the chain. She was hospitalized with a partial amputation to her right little finger and lacerations to her right middle and ring fingers, which required stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high