Incident date: 2024-03-15
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was using the "box machine" to fill empty boxes with potatoes when a box became stuck in the conveyor chain. While clearing the jam, his hand contacted the conveyor chain and he sustained amputations to the four fingers on his right hand to the first knuckle on each.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high