Incident date: 2025-02-21
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was operating a hot dog peeler. They went to remove a casing and their left middle finger struck the wheels of the peel, resulting in a fracture and avulsion that required medical amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high