Incident date: 2016-09-27
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was in the cooler taking boxes of chicken off a conveyor when his glove and right ring fingertip were caught in a knuckle chain on the conveyor. The first distal segment of the employee's ring finger was damaged and had to be amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-chain
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high