Incident date: 2023-01-07
NAICS industry code: 561210

An employee was performing general sanitation practices on an inclined conveyor in the live chicken receiving area. The employee was removing some feathers that were stuck on the conveyor chain drive when his glove got caught in the chain drive, pulling his right hand into the drive chain and sprocket. The employee suffered an amputation of the right little fingertip and lacerations to the right middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high