Incident date: 2025-08-08
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was clearing out a plugged auger on an activated pellet milling machine. The moving auger fractured and lacerated the employee's right arm, resulting in hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Arm(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate