Incident date: 2025-01-15
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was cleaning up wood debris and chipping it using a chipper. As he was feeding the chipper from the back, a limb (about 4 inches thick and 5 to 6 feet long) kicked up and struck his face, causing him to lose a tooth and breaking his jaw in two places. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
code_source: title: Chippers
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
severity: moderate