Incident date: 2019-10-28
NAICS industry code: 722511

An employee was moving a lettuce slicer when her left thumb was caught between the slicer's blade and guard. She bumped the handle and the blade cut her left thumb, resulting in a thumb amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cutting handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high