Incident date: 2024-05-06
NAICS industry code: 337122

An employee was running a table leg on a router machine when the wood jumped, causing his fingers to hit the router bit. His right glove was then pulled into the router by the bit, resulting in a partial traumatic amputation of a finger through the phalanx, an open fracture of the distal phalanx of another finger, a laceration to the index finger, and an avulsion to the middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
code_source: title: Boring, reaming, routing, notching machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high