Incident date: 2023-04-05
NAICS industry code: 113210

An employee was receiving an overview on how to clean out a piece of the top dressing machine when it gets jammed with pearlite. The employee went to feel the roller grooves when the machine activated and amputated his right index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Spreading machinery-agricultural
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high