Incident date: 2017-11-28
NAICS industry code: 115111

An employee was watching the control panel of a cotton gin when the lint cleaner became jammed. He turned the gin off and was attempting to remove the jam when his left hand was caught in the still turning saw blades, resulting in amputation of three left-hand fingers.

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