Incident date: 2024-06-20
NAICS industry code: 311813

An employee had been using soap and a towel to clean a slicer. They were finishing the cleaning procedure when the power switch was activated. The slicer turned on while the employee's right ring finger was in the blade gap and the blade amputated their fingertip without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food slicers
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high