Incident date: 2015-06-23
NAICS industry code: 311991

While cleaning the outside of a bulk meat grinder, an employee's right hand was amputated when he reached through a sample grinder port. This incident took place at approximately 9:00 PM on 6/23/15. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Meat grinders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Hand(s), n.e.c.
severity: high