Incident date: 2019-06-13
NAICS industry code: 321999

On June 13, 2019, an employee was standing on a post peeler machine by the motor watching his two coworkers change out a busted hydraulic hose. His coworkers turned on the machine. After the machine was energized, his right middle fingertip was amputated with bone loss by the machine's moving belt.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Log processing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high