Incident date: 2018-01-03
NAICS industry code: 311411

An employee turned off an auger at the bottom of a ribbon blender to find pieces of a plastic bucket lift that had broken and fallen into the ribbon blender. The employee went around and had opened the drain cover of the auger to retrieve the pieces when the auger activated and amputated the employee's left thumb. The auger was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high