Incident date: 2020-03-02
NAICS industry code: 561730

On March 2, 2020, an employee was helping winch a treetop to a wood chipper when the winch rope lacerated the employee's right hand. The employee's right index, middle, and ring fingers were medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Rope, twine, string
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high