Incident date: 2024-08-29
NAICS industry code: 323111

On August 29, 2024, an employee was cutting small swatches of engineered flooring with a chop saw. The employee raised the handle of the saw and realized that there was a piece of material stuck in the saw. As he was removing it, the sawblade amputated his left index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Stationary sawing machinery stationary  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high