Incident date: 2017-06-24
NAICS industry code: 722513

An employee was using a manual slicer to slice a cucumber. When she repositioned the cucumber, her left index finger hit the blade, amputating the fingertip. The blade was guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Food slicers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high