Incident date: 2024-06-26
NAICS industry code: 311991

An employee was sanitizing a grinder and spraying it down with a hose when their right little finger was lacerated by a piece of the grinder. The employee sustained a medical amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high