Incident date: 2019-03-18
NAICS industry code: 424420

An employee was cleaning the scraper bar on a freezer belt exit. The employee's right ring finger was caught between the scraper and the belt; the top knuckle (right under the nailbed) and finger pad were amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high