Incident date: 2025-02-25
NAICS industry code: 321113

Employees were working to send boards out of the mill. Unmatched boards were stacked on a rack that is suspended from the ceiling in front of the stacker. A sticker layer employee was assisting the stacker operator to transfer the boards down off the suspended rack and onto the transfer deck. The sticker layer employee pulled a bowed board from the rack and placed it on the deck. The stacker operator used his right hand to help the bowed board pass underneath the stoppers. Another board (2x10x16 ) was moved from the rack to the transfer deck. This board landed on the stacker operator's right hand, crushing his little fingertip against the bowed board. This resulted in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object handled by person  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Dimensional lumber
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high