Incident date: 2023-04-06
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was positioning a shackle onto a transition wheel to hang carcasses on the incline chain. The shackle twisted and the employee's right index finger was pinched between the shackle shaft and rail guide plate. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the fingertip and a distal tuft fracture to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high