Incident date: 2022-02-09
NAICS industry code: 311211

An employee was starting equipment with rollers that normally rotated in a outward motion to move stock away from the rollers, but had become a pinch point after maintenance. When the employee reached for stock, their left middle, ring, and little fingers got caught in the pinch point, resulting in amputations to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high