Incident date: 2016-11-29
NAICS industry code: 111219

An employee was using a planter machine to plant broccoli. As he was pulling a plant from the planter machine's cup, the cup turned and amputated his right index fingertip. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Plowing, planting, and fertilizing machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high