Incident date: 2024-06-12
NAICS industry code: 325412

An employee was using a large equipment skid designed to deliver a metered amount of solid product into a production vessel. The equipment contains a large stainless-steel hopper, a dispensing head that is contained inside a stainless-steel housing and an attached scale. The employee was attempting to clean the dispensing head and free a jam when their fingers were caught in the auger, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation on the right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high