Incident date: 2025-05-09
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was placing chunks of meat into a grinder and receiving the meat on the other end. The employee's left index finger was pulled into one of the holes in the blade, resulting in a fingertip amputation that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Meat grinders
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high