Incident date: 2023-12-19
NAICS industry code: 332323

An employee was putting a piece of wire into a saw blade. The saw caught the wire and pulled the employee's hand into the blade, causing a right index fingertip amputation without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high