Incident date: 2025-04-29
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was clearing a jam on the vibrating conveyor in the sawmill when his left little finger got caught between a slab of wood with a sharp edge and the conveyor, resulting in amputation at the middle knuckle.

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