Incident date: 2019-07-29
NAICS industry code: 311812

On July 29, 2019,at 10:30 a.m., an employee was preparing to add sugar product to a metering chute. He reached up into the metering chute to verify the equipment was off and his right middle finger was struck by a pneumatic slide gate. His finger was fractured and lacerated, resulting in a surgical fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Chutes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high