Incident date: 2022-04-19
NAICS industry code: 325314

An employee was cleaning the floor with a broom. He bent down to get something off the floor and placed his left hand on the guard of a screw conveyor. The guard of the conveyor was rotted; the employee's left index finger went through the guard. The conveyor cut their finger resulting in partial amputation above the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Conveyors-screw, auger
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high