Incident date: 2024-07-28
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee used a step ladder to access a sewer area so they could remove a clog in the food depositor machine hopper and sustained an amputation to their index fingertip and fractures to the same hand.

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: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high