Incident date: 2024-07-24
NAICS industry code: 321113

The injured employee was repairing a broken pin on the planer outfeed roll cylinder. A hoist was being used, and the employee was aligning a piece of the equipment when the cylinder moved and the employee's index finger was pinched between the clevis hole and the cylinder hole, causing a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Hoists, lifts  overhead, cable
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high