Incident date: 2018-08-03
NAICS industry code: 311314

An employee was using a steel rod to break up sugar lumps in a silo when the rod was pulled in by the silo's screw conveyor and the employee's right hand was caught in the rod handle, amputating the right pinky, ring, and middle fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high