Incident date: 2024-10-28
NAICS industry code: 311421

On October 28, 2024, an employee noticed a large carrot in a cutter bowl was not feeding into the slots on a carrot processing line. He went to remove the large carrot and his left middle finger contacted the cutter blades, resulting in amputation of the fingertip pad.

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