Incident date: 2024-04-05
NAICS industry code: 311830

An employee was cleaning debris from a tortilla cutter when his left hand contacted the machine, resulting in the partial amputation of the little finger and lacerations to the middle and ring fingers. The machine was not guarded or locked out/tagged out at the time.

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