Incident date: 2024-01-25
NAICS industry code: 311942

An employee was manually disassembling a sifter system on the second floor, under a bag dump station that was above a blender that mixed dry food ingredients to be packaged. He disengaged three of the four clamps and was trying to disengage the fourth with his left hand; his right hand was caught under the sifter housing when it tilted, resulting in amputation of the ring fingertip and a laceration on the middle finger. The machine was de-energized and isolated at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Mixers, blenders, whippers food and beverage
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high