Incident date: 2021-10-19
NAICS industry code: 311513

On October 19, 2021, at 2:00 p.m., an employee removed chunks of cheese from a machine when a cylinder activated and the employee's right fingers were pinched between the cylinder and a stainless steel part, resulting in an amputation to the little finger and fractures in three additional fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high