Incident date: 2021-05-24
NAICS industry code: 339999

An employee was operating a cracker mill designed to grind soy beans. The employee was clearing a jam in the machine when their right hand was caught between two cracker rolls (8" blades) resulting in amputation of their pinky, ring, and middle fingers and a partial amputation of their right palm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Feed grinders, crushers, mixers-agricultural
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high