Incident date: 2024-12-10
NAICS industry code: 311119

On December 10, 2024, an employee was loading buckets of finished product from a spray dry machine. The employee's right hand was caught in the machine's airlock, resulting in the amputation of their middle and ring fingertips.

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