Incident date: 2018-11-07
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was walking by a transfer conveyor located at about knee level that moves dimensional lumber into a sorting and stacking machine when he noticed that a board was stuck on the conveyor. As he attempted to unjam it, a running chain and sprocket power transmission apparatus caught his right middle finger, resulting in an amputation at the middle knuckle. The conveyor was guarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high