Incident date: 2019-04-04
NAICS industry code: 311411

An employee was spraying the gears of a citrus machine. The gears caught a towel tucked into his pants, then pulled in his right index finger. The finger was crushed and was amputated up to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high