Incident date: 2019-11-14
NAICS industry code: 311111

An associate was cleaning and sanitizing a cutter, which housed motor-driven blades used to cut the product created by an extruder. The employee's left thumb  contacted the cutter blades, resulting in an inch-long laceration to the back inner side of the left thumb that in turn caused a partial amputation of the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high