Incident date: 2024-08-21
NAICS industry code: 311411

An employee was cleaning jammed potatoes from the top of a roll sizer in the raw receiving area when her right index finger was caught in the chain, resulting in hospitalization and a fingertip amputation.

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: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high