Incident date: 2015-02-23
NAICS industry code: 311615

The employee was working at a production line where breast meat is inspected prior to packaging. The employee reached down and underneath a conveyor belt where her glove was caught in a pinch point, amputating her right index fingertip. The doctor described it as a de-gloving of the fingertip with removal of the bone tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high