Incident date: 2019-10-30
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was dislodging a piece of lumber from a conveyor when another piece of lumber hit the piece he was attempting to remove, causing his left pinky finger to be caught between the lumber and a piece of steel. As a result, his left pinky finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Wood, lumber, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high