Incident date: 2024-08-03
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was performing dry cleaning operations on a food forming machine when their left middle finger was struck by a plunger mechanism and they sustained a partial fingertip amputation. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high