Incident date: 2019-08-21
NAICS industry code: 311412

On August 21, 2019, a temporary employee was applying grated cheese to a pizza crust moving on a conveyor line to a plastic wrapping system. He was attempting to grab grated cheese that drops into a catch bin under the conveyor when his finger was caught in the chain and sprocket system, resulting in a finger amputation on his right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high