Incident date: 2024-08-27
NAICS industry code: 562910

An employee was loading wood into a splitter. The splitter was activated as the employee loaded a piece of wood into it and it caught his right hand, cutting his middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Logging and wood processing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high