Incident date: 2019-08-22
NAICS industry code: 332313

An employee was cutting material with a band saw. He turned off the band saw to straighten the material in the vice. When he pushed the button to close the vice, his left middle finger was still in the vice as it closed, resulting in an amputation of his finger to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Band saws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high