Incident date: 2023-10-10
NAICS industry code: 311812

On October 10, 2023, an employee was working to clear muffin trays that had jammed at the 90-degree turn of a conveyor. The employee's left ring and little fingers were pinched between the paddle and the steel support resulting in partial amputation of both fingers. The conveyor was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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