Incident date: 2015-04-14
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee's finger was smashed when CANT, a cut log that can not be further processed in the saw mill operation, fell out of his hand. The employee lifted the log and lost his grip, and the log started to fall. While trying to change his grip to catch the log, his fingers got pinched between the log and the machine guard.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Logs
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high