Incident date: 2017-09-27
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was using a scouring pad to clean out meat in the door of a blender when the employee's left middle finger was caught in the blender ribbons, amputating the distal tip. The blender was not locked out at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high