Incident date: 2020-03-14
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was cleaning a meat slicer. She lowered the slicing basket and went to scrub the upside face of the blade using a sanitized cloth. She extended her hand further out and her right ring finger ran across the blade resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Food slicers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high