Incident date: 2019-03-06
NAICS industry code: 321912

An employee was cleaning up around a sawmill, throwing logs onto a long-log chain-conveyor. The nip point between a metal trough and a log caught his right index finger, causing a partial amputation at the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-chain
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high