Incident date: 2015-04-10
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was operating a conveyor that moves wood products. The employee attempted to remove a board from the moving conveyor and struck his right fingers against the angle iron on the frame of the conveyor resulting in a fracture to the right index finger and an ablation to the right ring finger that required the tip to be medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high