Incident date: 2024-01-16
NAICS industry code: 561320

A temporary employee was splitting firewood using a wood splitting machine and sustained a fractured middle finger on their right hand and an injured tendon. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Logging and wood processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate