Incident date: 2018-10-16
NAICS industry code: 424470

An employee was cleaning a meat grinder machine when his right index finger slipped into the faceplate hole and was struck by the screw drive mixing blade, resulting in an amputation of the first finger digit.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Meat grinders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high