Incident date: 2016-10-12
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee servicing a wood chipper suffered a partial am[utation of the right ring finger after going under the machine to engage the belt. The chipper was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Chippers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high