Incident date: 2025-06-11
NAICS industry code: 311513

On June 11, 2025, at approximately 12:35 PM, an assistant cheese maker was unplugging cheese from the star valve on a machine when their left middle finger made contact with the rotating valve. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Dairy and milk processing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high