Incident date: 2024-05-02
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was installing a plate into a food forming machine when the plate slipped and crushed his right ring finger between the plate and the frame, resulting in a soft tissue amputation to the fingertip with a reattachment surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high