Incident date: 2022-01-10
NAICS industry code: 311712

An employee was operating an automatic fillet machine. Fish guts were stuck at the infeed and the employee used his right hand to push the guts into the machine when his right middle finger sustained a laceration. The fingertip was later amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high