Incident date: 2016-11-17
NAICS industry code: 311991

An employee was troubleshooting a conveyor belt on the hamburger patty line in a meat processing plant. His gloved right hand got caught in the gear resulting in amputation of the index finger.

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