Incident date: 2019-06-24
NAICS industry code: 311230

An employee was pushing wet corn meal down into the throat of a twin screw cooker with his left hand when his fingers were caught in the ingoing nip point of the twin screws. He suffered amputation injuries to four fingers (excluding the thumb) on his left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high