Incident date: 2025-08-13
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was adjusting the belt in a poultry packaging machine whose jaws were not retracting. The employee's right hand was caught in a belt-and-sprocket pinch point, and the employee suffered amputations to the ring and little fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high