Incident date: 2015-08-27
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was attempting to start the commercial riding lawn mower in the manual mode.  While starting the mower, the employee's got caught in the pulleys. Half the index finger was amputated and the middle and ring fingers were amputated to the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Lawn mowers-riding
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high