Incident date: 2018-11-12
NAICS industry code: 423390

An employee was opening straw bales and loading them into a conveyor. As he was trying to cut the string off a bale, the string snagged and cut his left middle finger, causing a laceration that led to an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high