Incident date: 2018-12-07
NAICS industry code: 722210

An employee was using a manual slicer to slice potatoes. A potato got jammed in the slicer and when the employee removed the potato, the slicer came down on their right middle finger resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cutting handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high