Incident date: 2025-08-20
NAICS industry code: 423820

An employee was replacing a manure belt in an egg producing poultry house. He was using a mechanical roller and a steel cable to pull (remove) the old manure belt. The employee's ring and little fingertips were pinched between the roller and the cable resulting in partial amputations above the top knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Manure cleaning, scraping equipment
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high