Incident date: 2024-08-05
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was maintaining lumber stacks when the outfeed chip head jammed with a block of wood. While unjamming it, their right hand contacted the spinning head on the chip and saw (CNS) machine and they sustained amputation of their ring and little fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Stationary sawing machinery stationary  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high