Incident date: 2024-10-18
NAICS industry code: 311352

At 5:10 p.m., an employee was checking to see if there was product stuck inside a spool depositor when the spool cycled and caught the tip of her middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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