Incident date: 2020-01-14
NAICS industry code: 541711

An employee was operating a wood chipper machine when it became jammed with material. The employee's fingertip was amputated while trying to unjam it and the employee was hospitalized. The machine was not running at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Chippers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high