Incident date: 2018-03-19
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was cutting pork loin chops on a bone-in band saw when the bone slipped from his grip. When the bone hit the saw, it caused his right index finger to hit the saw blade. When he pulled his index finger back, the saw caught his middle finger diagonally from the top joint upwards to the fingertip. He received an amputation of the distal half of the distal phalanx of the right middle finger and a soft tissue avulsion of the tuft on the index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high