Incident date: 2024-11-18
NAICS industry code: 311340

An employee was cleaning a sizer machine with an air hose and washcloth. The washcloth got pulled into machine rollers along with her left thumb, resulting in a fingertip amputation that required surgical reattachment.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high