Incident date: 2022-09-23
NAICS industry code: 112320

On September 23, 2022, a Tyson Prepared Foods employee was disassembling a bacon-slicing machine. When the employee tried to remove residual product from the belt and hold-down roller, the machine's blade caused amputations to the employee's middle and ring fingers and an avulsion to the index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Food slicers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high