Incident date: 2025-01-27
NAICS industry code: 311830

An employee was adjusting the mesh conveyor belt on the flour tortilla process line when their right ring finger was caught between the actuating piston and the conveyor frame. The fingertip was amputated and the employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high