Incident date: 2018-04-04
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was gathering samples of frozen chickens that were being conveyed on a product freezer belt to a plastic scrapper when her right index finger was caught in between the scrapper and the conveyor belt, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The nip point between the scrapper and belt was unguarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high