Incident date: 2015-10-22
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was attempting to put a chain back on the sprocket drive of the wood hog machine. Another employee started up the machine and the injured employee's fingers were caught in the machine resulting in the amputation of the pinky fingertip and a broken ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high