Incident date: 2024-05-02
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was performing maintenance services to the gearbox of a rendering cooker when their left thumb tip was lacerated between the belt and the drive, resulting in an amputation to the thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Heating and cooking machinery, appliances  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high