Incident date: 2025-04-24
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was cleaning stuck meat from a grinder blade when their left middle fingertip was amputated. The equipment was deenergized but the blade was still spinning.

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