Incident date: 2018-01-19
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was splitting wood with a log splitter when he noticed a piece of wood was stuck on the blade. As he tried to clear the wood, his hand contacted a moving cylinder, resulting in his left thumb being amputated between the blade and wood stop or moving cylinder.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Log processing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high