Incident date: 2016-02-13
NAICS industry code: 424510

On 2/13/2016 at about 1:30 p.m. an employee who was cleaning around a floor grain auger with an open gate fell into a hole around the auger.  The employee's leg was caught in the moving auger and the leg was amputated around the knee.  The employee was hospitalized.

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: Lower leg(s)
severity: high