Incident date: 2015-01-28
NAICS industry code: 713910

An employee in the lawn/golf course maintenance department was spreading fertilizer and reached into the hopper to push lime further down the hopper. His gloved hand was caught by the agitator causing a deep cut to his left middle fingertip. The employee was hospitalized and the next day part of his finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Spreading machinery-agricultural
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high