Incident date: 2020-01-07
NAICS industry code: 321912

An employee was reaching for a broken piece of lumber that was hung up on a board edger's infeed chains. His right hand was caught between two cants (or a cant and part of the machinery); the hand was lacerated and the index, middle, ring, and little fingers were broken.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate