Incident date: 2015-07-01
NAICS industry code: 311911

An employee lifted the hinged cover of a peanut bin/hopper and put his left hand in the bin. A moving auger inside the bin caught his left-hand ring finger and amputated the fingertip. The bin cover was not interlocked, and the production line was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high