Incident date: 2023-03-16
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was cleaning sawdust from a machine when a wood chip lodged in the vacuum dust collection system and caused it to stop. When the wood chip broke loose, the dust collection system restarted, causing a piece of wood to contact the employee's left hand. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left thumb and a laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Wood chips, sawdust
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate