Incident date: 2023-10-26
NAICS industry code: 113310

On October 26, 2023, at 1:00 AM, an employee was unjamming a locked-out belt on a machine that sets up wooden boards. When the wood came out, it impacted his right hand, knocking it into a guard. The guard of the machine then amputated the middle finger at the middle knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Logging and wood processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high