Incident date: 2022-03-03
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee placed a log in a chipper. When the feed wheels of the chipper took the log, the butt of the log kicked upward and crushed the employee's right fingers between the log and the top of the feed chute, resulting in amputation of the ring fingertip.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high