OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #827147
PETERSBURG FEED MILL
PETERSBURG, IA·
Event description
Employee's hand cut when caught in auger
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was unloading fertilizer from a semi-trailer when the transfer auger became plugged He removed the cover from the auger to unplug the chute. After c leaning the chute, he restarted the auger. It was running slow, so he was going to close the slide that controls the flow from the truck. While doing so, he sli pped and his hand caught in the turning auger. He sustained a severe cut on the hand. Employee #1 did not put the cover back on the auger chute prior to turning the power back on.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 Male
- Nature of injury
- Cut/Laceration (7)
- Part of body
- HAND(S) (12)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQ. (27)
- Occupation
- Truck drivers, heavy (804)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- PINCH POINT ACTION (1)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.