Incident date: 2018-12-03
NAICS industry code: 325611

An employee was attempting to clean out clogged product from the bottom gate of an industrial mixer screw conveyor when the screw caught his left index finger, resulting in the amputation of his finger to the first knuckle. The conveyor was running at the time of the incident.

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