Incident date: 2024-01-22
NAICS industry code: 424480

On January 22, 2024, an employee was preparing to run carrot sticks through the line of a machine with a conveyor belt that shakes the carrots to separate smaller pieces. The belt caught the employee's glove and pulled his finger into a pulley, partially amputating the right thumb below the nailbed. The machine was guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high