Incident date: 2017-12-30
NAICS industry code: 311111

On December 30, 2017, at approximately 3:30 PM, an employee was attempting to clean clogged meat from a drain on a meat stuffer machine when a grinder unit in the drain caught his right index finger, amputating it to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high