Incident date: 2020-04-11
NAICS industry code: 311111

An employee was unjamming a piece of frozen meat from a locked-out auger. When the employee inserted a T-handled bar into the winding down auger, the bar moved, and pinched the employee's hand against the machine's fixed guard. The employee sustained an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high