Incident date: 2020-04-13
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was collecting sawdust from under the edger and saw a piece of wood lodged in the bottom side of the edger. When he reached to remove the wood, the saw caught the scrap wood and pulled the employee's hand into the blade resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: high