Incident date: 2025-07-01
NAICS industry code: 327320

An employee was checking the tension of a belt on a fly ash auger that feeds into a concrete truck. The employee's fingers were caught in the belt pulley, resulting in hospitalization with fractures to their left index, middle, and ring fingers, as well as lacerations and tears to the skin/tissue of the fingers. The employee required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors screw, auger
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate