Incident date: 2018-02-26
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was working on a horizontal mixer, evacuating the kettle into a receiving hopper. He saw a piece of cheese at the end of the hopper and attempted to remove it. His hand then became lodged within the turning auger, and his middle finger was amputated at the second knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high