Incident date: 2019-07-24
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was performing a mid-shift wash down in the evisceration department when she saw a chicken hanging in the neck skin cutter. She was trying to remove it when her fingers were caught in the cutter, resulting in a finger amputation.

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