Incident date: 2016-10-07
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee was operating the bread line, where bread comes off the cooler line onto five different baggers. The bread goes onto a slide that pushes one loaf at a time into the guarded slicers.  After it is sliced, a metal guide pushes the bread forward to the next line for the bread to be bagged. Two loaves of bread, one behind the other, went into the slicer the wrong way. When the employee attempted to grab the bread, the metal guide pinched her right pinky finger, resulting in a distal amputation of her fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high