Incident date: 2017-10-14
NAICS industry code: 722310

A temporary employee suffered a right thumb amputation while attempting to remove a piece of meat that was hanging from a meat grinder. The grinder was guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Meat grinders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high