Incident date: 2018-12-18
NAICS industry code: 424510

Three employees were sliding new auger flighting into a bin. The piece of flighting was 30' long and had to slide across an electric motor mount bracket. The injured employee's left index finger was caught at the pinch point created by the flighting and the motor mount bracket. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Agricultural and garden machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high