Incident date: 2020-09-09
NAICS industry code: 311421

An employee was setting up a canning line to package sliced beets. While checking to see if any food was stuck from sanitation, the employee's index finger contacted the rotating metal vanes of the rotary valve resulting in amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high