Incident date: 2020-05-29
NAICS industry code: 311613

An employee was loading meat product onto a conveyor belt when a piece of meat got stuck. As the employee was dislodging the meat, his finger was caught between the catch plate and the moving conveyor belt. He sustained a fingertip amputation.

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