Incident date: 2025-08-07
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was troubleshooting a vibration and noise issue on a slicer. He manually rotated the idler pulley when his right index finger went through a cleaning hole in the pulley, causing it to get caught between the pulley and a bearing block. The employee suffered a partial fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food slicers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high