Incident date: 2025-02-12
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was loading a 5-gallon bucket of tomato sauce into a hopper. A sensor that tells the sauce hopper to dispense substances was triggered and the employee's left middle fingertip was amputated from the bottom of the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
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