Incident date: 2019-08-19
NAICS industry code: 722513

On August 19, 2019, an employee was slicing chicken on a meat slicer in automatic mode. He was trying to move the fence carriage closer to the meat to better hold it in place when the machine pushed his left thumb tip into the blade. As a result, he sustained an amputation to his left thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Food slicers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high