Incident date: 2016-10-05
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was packaging meat products and attempted to dislodge a package caught in the conveyor. The chain-driven conveyor belt then amputated the employee's fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-chain
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high