Incident date: 2017-11-20
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was disassembling a meat cutting machine to clean it. The machine was still plugged in at the time, and a switch was triggered while the employee's hand was inside the cutting area. The machine's blade then amputated the employee's left middle fingertip (no bone loss).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Food slicers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high