Incident date: 2018-10-29
NAICS industry code: 722110

An employee was slicing cucumbers with a manual slicer when the handle came off the slicer. The slicer then amputated the employee's left ring fingertip. Cut-resistant gloves were not worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object breaking in hand
code_source: title: Cutting handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high