Incident date: 2024-03-23
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was unloading a batch of marinated product from a chopper machine bowl when the wheel went down instead of up, pinching their right ring finger between the wheel and the bowl and causing a loss of the finger pad.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Food slicers
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high