Incident date: 2025-06-29
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was removing a tub of ground chicken and scrapping off the grinding tube when their finger was caught in the grinder. The employee sustained an amputation and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Meat grinders
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high