Incident date: 2024-01-25
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was cleaning a chicken breast processor. A hook caught her hand and pulled it toward a pulley that lacerated it, tearing tendons and an artery. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate