Incident date: 2021-01-04
NAICS industry code: 445110

On 1/4/2021 at 12:15 pm, an employee was placing meat into a meat grinder and when the foot pedal was pressed and the machine turned on. The grinder caught his hand, which resulted in a soft tissue injury to his right hand that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Meat grinders
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate