Incident date: 2022-07-05
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was feeding tree limbs into a wood chipper when the winch line caught the employee's hand, pulling his hand/fingers into the chipper blades and resulting in an amputation injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Chippers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: high