Incident date: 2021-12-02
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee opened the hatch of a meat processing machine for maintenance to remove product from underneath the machine. The hatch bumped and smashed the employee's left ring fingertip between the machine and the hatch, resulting in an amputation to the tip of the nail.

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