Incident date: 2024-04-08
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee's right hand was caught in a chain after a machine started up while he was looking at a jammed log. The employee suffered multiple finger amputations on his right hand and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Logging and wood processing machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high