Incident date: 2023-04-10
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was using an auger to spread lime to treat soil. The employee started warm-up operations for the equipment and went to lubricate the grease point located at the rear of the cart. The employee's glove became entangled in the moving chain, causing his right middle finger to become pinched between the chain and the sprocket. The employee sustained a partial traumatic transphalangeal amputation of the right middle finger.

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