Incident date: 2020-10-04
NAICS industry code: 321113

A maintenance employee was rotating a belt on the canter machine by hand to check the alignment on the belt after a new canter head and arbor shaft were installed. His left thumb was caught between the belt and the sheave resulting in an avulsion and partial amputation to the left thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Logging and wood processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high