Incident date: 2017-07-10
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was hand feeding a plastic board into a table saw's rotating blade to fabricate a replacement part for dumper guides/rails when the plastic piece kicked back, causing the employee to momentarily lose control of it. His hands continued to move forward and his left middle fingertip contacted the rotating blade and was amputated. The blade was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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