Incident date: 2017-08-25
NAICS industry code: 115111

On 8/25/2017, an employee was using a wooden stick to unclog a de-seeding machine's blade drum when the rotating blade grabbed the stick and caused the employee's hand to strike the rotating blades. The blade cut all of his left-hand fingers, and several had to be surgically amputated.

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