Incident date: 2016-07-18
NAICS industry code: 311999

At the end of shift, an employee turned off the grinder and used his right hand to clean meat off the grinder plate. The employee's right index finger went into a hole in the grinder plate and the fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Meat grinders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high