Incident date: 2024-03-21
NAICS industry code: 311520

An employee was changing the fruit feeder to a funnel adaptor piece when they took the impeller plate off and the gasket came off. When retrieving the gasket, the spinning pump impeller caught his finger resulting in an amputation of the right index fingertip to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Mixers, blenders, whippers food and beverage
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high