Incident date: 2017-08-11
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was using a band saw to cut a manufactured plastic part (42-gallon waste container) to be ground up in a granulator when the saw blade and the part wiggled. The employee's left thumb tip then made contact with the blade and was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Band saws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high