Incident date: 2025-08-12
NAICS industry code: 311412

The injured employee was training a new employee to prime a commercial batter depositor. She told the new employee to turn the machine off and was manually pushing batter into the machine. The machine cycled and her right index finger was caught between the rollers, resulting in amputation of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high