Incident date: 2025-03-21
NAICS industry code: 337110

On March 21, 2025, an employee was using both hands to push a piece of half-inch plywood through a table saw when his left thumb contacted the blade. The employee sustained an amputation without bone loss to the thumb tip and nailbed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Stationary saws  table
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high