Incident date: 2016-12-13
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was helping to operate a scrap saw and was ensuring plastic would feed through it when a coworker activated the saw, severely cutting the employee's right arm. He required surgery. The saw was guarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate