Incident date: 2024-06-21
NAICS industry code: 811310

A maintenance contractor employee was in the process of re-installing a newly repaired machine guard back onto a four-lane bagel-making machine by inserting a mounting bolt. He reached around the guard to secure the nut and his right fingertips were pinched against a stationary part of the machine by the pneumatic indexer. He sustained amputations to two fingertips. Lock out/tag out procedures were not used.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high