Incident date: 2025-07-31
NAICS industry code: 115310

Two employees were operating a wood splitter. An employee was loading wood into the splitter when the tip of his right thumb was crushed between the rear end of the wood and the back metal plate of the wood splitter. The employee's thumb tip was amputated.

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: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high