Incident date: 2024-10-07
NAICS industry code: 337122

An employee was unclogging the sawdust collection system on a gang saw when they sustained amputations to their left middle fingertip and right index fingertip from the spinning turbines in the chute.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Cleaning machinery, appliances  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high