Incident date: 2018-07-23
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was replacing the bearings on an icing station machine's belt as part of regular preventive maintenance when the shaft came off from the other side and tilted against the frame, catching the employee's thumb between the shaft and frame. The employee's left thumb was smashed, resulting in a partial amputation with bone loss.

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