Incident date: 2020-07-22
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was cleaning out debris from a wood pellet mill. The employee's hand was pulled between the mill's die and roller; the employee suffered compression injuries to the left hand, with partial amputations to the left index and middle fingers.

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