Incident date: 2024-04-22
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was loading pepperoni sticks inside the pepperoni slicer when a stick fell out of the cluster mechanism inside the machine. As the employee attempted to retrieve the stick, their right hand was caught in the machine, resulting in partial amputations to the middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Food slicers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high