Incident date: 2024-08-06
NAICS industry code: 311520

An employee was reassembling a de-energized piece of equipment after cleaning it. She was pushing the fill hopper back into place on the equipment when her right ring finger became pinched between the hopper and the bump stop guide on the equipment, resulting in an amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Dairy and milk processing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high