Incident date: 2024-04-14
NAICS industry code: 311412

At 1:30 p.m. on April 14, 2024, a quality control employee was trying to remove a pancake from a chain using a pen. The pen became stuck. As the employee tried to reach under the chain, it amputated the tip of her right little finger.

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