Incident date: 2015-04-15
NAICS industry code: 562998

An employee was sanitizing meat processing equipment. The employee turned the machine on and inserted a hose up the discharge chute to inject a chemical cleaning foam. The mixing head on the end of the machine caught and amputated the employee's finger.

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