Incident date: 2016-03-10
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was gathering tree limbs from the ground and feeding them into a chipper. While he was feeding the chipper, a piece of rope was caught in the feeder wheels and wrapped around his right hand, amputating his fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Rope, twine, string
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high