Incident date: 2025-01-30
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was putting a pipe back together and was setting up equipment prior to start of production. The air valve was turned on and the employee's left thumb was partially amputated by the butterfly spindle inside the pipe.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high