Incident date: 2018-11-30
NAICS industry code: 331491

An employee was using a manual, lever-style paper cutter to cut lintless wiper tiles to size when his left thumb went over the bar. The paper cutter blade then cut his left thumb tip, resulting in an amputation from the base of the nail through the front tip of the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Cutting handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high