Incident date: 2025-03-06
NAICS industry code: 311211

On March 6, 2025, a maintenance technician was lubricating a live chain on a shaker used for cleaning oat hulls. Upon wiping off excess grease using a rag, the rag got caught in the sprocket and the employee's right hand was pulled into the in-going nip-point where the chain and sprocket met, resulting in amputation injuries to the second and third fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high