Incident date: 2024-08-15
NAICS industry code: 327215

An employee was performing maintenance on a pre-wash cold end washer. As he pushed down on the assembly so that it could be fastened in place his hand slipped downward into a chain and sprocket on the washer's conveyor. The equipment was not de-energized or locked out. His right index finger was caught in the chain and sprocket resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high