Incident date: 2015-06-22
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee grabbed the boards as they started to jam up on the conveyor belt for the trim saw.  The employee was pushing a group of boards into another board when the board kicked back forcing the employee's hand into the conveyor belt and amputating the tip of the employee's right thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high