Incident date: 2025-08-12
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was waiting for test product to come out of a freezer. While the employee was lowering the basket used to catch the test product, their left little finger was caught between the basket and the side shield on the freezer slide chute, resulting in an amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high