Incident date: 2019-04-18
NAICS industry code: 311919

An employee was cleaning the masa process line with a high pressure water hose. As the employee removed masa dough from the machine, their left middle finger was caught in the rotating blades resulting in an amputation injury to the finger. The machine was energized at the time.

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), unspecified
severity: high