Incident date: 2017-02-24
NAICS industry code: 325991

An employee opened the cleanout on a screw conveyor that had stopped. As he was removing the super sack string that had bound it up, the screw conveyor continued turning and amputated his right ring finger.

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