Incident date: 2025-05-13
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was pulling flanges after they were cut and pushed forward by an automated horizontal bandsaw. The employee slipped and his left index fingertip was caught by the horizontal bandsaw as it came down, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Stationary saws  band
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high