Incident date: 2024-08-01
NAICS industry code: 311352

An employee was performing maintenance on a cake decorating line when his glove became caught in the wire mesh conveyor and it pulled his right thumb into the rotating parts of the chocolate feeder tube. The employee sustained an avulsion with a partial amputation of the thumb.

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: Thumb(s)
severity: high