Incident date: 2024-03-20
NAICS industry code: 311615

On March 20, 2024, at approximately 3:45PM, an employee was sealing a bag of chicken tenders on a controlled vacuum pack machine when their fingers got caught in the machine, causing an amputation to the left index fingertip and crushing injuries to the middle finger.

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