Incident date: 2024-07-25
NAICS industry code: 315280

An employee was clearing a pile of woodchips from a planer feeder located in the dry finishing end when their left hand slipped and contacted a chip head resulting in amputation to the left little finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Planing mills
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high