Incident date: 2015-11-23
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was measuring plywood with a coworker when the coworker stepped on the plywood. The injured employee's finger got caught between two sheets of plywood and the left ring fingertip was snipped off. The employee required surgical amputation down to the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Plywood, wood paneling; particle, chip, flake board
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high