Incident date: 2016-12-05
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was pushing boards into a chipper when the ends of two boards closed together and caught the employee's right middle fingertip, amputating approximately one-third of the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Wood, lumber, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high