Incident date: 2019-07-28
NAICS industry code: 326122

An employee was purging material through a silo that has a rotary air lock on the bottom. Product was not flowing; when the employee tried to get the product flowing again, three fingers were amputated in the air-lock mechanism.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high