Incident date: 2015-01-14
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was unjamming a stuck granulated salt spreader used on the back of a truck to salt roads.  The employee reached into the impeller and chain components while the machine was running and something grabbed his right hand and amputated his right index finger past the nail bed, but before the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high