Incident date: 2025-07-28
NAICS industry code: 561910

On July 28, 2025, at approximately 2:40 p.m., an employee was inspecting and cleaning a hopper when their left middle finger was pinched by a pneumatic actuated feed block, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high