Incident date: 2017-07-11
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was using a stainless steel, 72-inch-long probe to break up frozen vegetables in a hopper when the stainless steel probe came into contact with the mechanical cluster buster at the bottom of the hopper, causing it to twist and pinch the employee's pinky fingertip between the top of the hopper edge and the stainless steel probe. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high