Incident date: 2024-09-04
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was unjamming a conveyor belt on a double notcher machine when his left middle finger became caught between the wood and the machine guard. The employee sustained an amputation to the finger. The machine was guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Boring, reaming, routing, notching machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high