Incident date: 2025-05-22
NAICS industry code: 311513

On May 22, 2025, an employee was loading molds filled with cheese into a holding cage in preparation to place them in a cooling tank. A mold slipped from his hand, catching his right middle finger against the frame of the cage. He sustained an amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high