Incident date: 2024-08-15
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was shackling cows at the shackling station when his right thumb was caught in a shackle and he sustained an amputation to the thumb tip.

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