Incident date: 2022-04-15
NAICS industry code: 425120

An employee was operating the chunker when dough piled up underneath the chunker. The employee started to remove the dough when his hand got caught between the belt and the cutter on the chunker. The employee sustained an amputation to the right thumb.

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), unspecified
severity: high