Incident date: 2017-08-03
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was using a metal hook to remove pork loins from a metal grid conveyor belt coming from a freezer tunnel when the hook was caught in the metal grid and his left thumb was pinched between the conveyor belt and hook handle. His left thumb tip was amputated below the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high