Incident date: 2024-02-21
NAICS industry code: 311712

An employee was performing maintenance on a cheese spinner machine. As he pulled a piece out of the machine, the piece fell on top of his left middle finger, resulting in 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: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high