Incident date: 2018-03-23
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was cleaning a screw conveyor and when he lifted a lid to clean underneath it , the conveyor pinched his left-hand fingertips. His index, middle, and ring fingertips were medically amputated. The conveyor was in motion at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-screw, auger
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high