Incident date: 2016-08-11
NAICS industry code: 332999

On or about August 11, 2016, an employee was cutting steel bar stock on a band saw when the employee's left index finger was caught between the band saw stop and the bar stock as a vertical vice closed to secure the bar stock. The distal phalange on the finger had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Band saws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high