Incident date: 2022-10-11
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was straightening a board at the infeed to an unscrambler at the planer mill. As the employee was trying to dislodge the skewed board, the weight shifted on another board, causing the employee's left little finger to become pinched between the two boards. The employee suffered a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high