Incident date: 2024-06-26
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was retrieving bread dough that had fallen onto the ground under the bread proofer machine when her right thumb contacted a gear and sprocket under the machine. The employee sustained an amputation of the thumb. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high