Incident date: 2021-06-25
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was preparing to break down a machine to clean meat out of the actuator valve when the valve cycled and amputated the employee's right index finger down to the first knuckle.

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