Incident date: 2024-10-04
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was feeding cabbage into a slicer to be shredded when a jam occurred. The employee stopped the machine, removed the guard to clear the jam, and sustained a partial amputation to his left index finger.

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