Incident date: 2025-02-18
NAICS industry code: 311999

On February 18, 2025, at approximately 11:30 AM, an employee was operating a filler machine that fills individual sauce containers. He went to make adjustments to the airflow within the machine and his left index finger was caught by a rotating sprocket gear near the airflow adjustment controls, resulting in partial amputation of the fingertip. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high