Incident date: 2022-02-23
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was cleaning saw dust from the slab edger. The employee opened the collector box at the bottom of the machine and was attempting to move saw dust into the vacuum collection system located in the collector box when his finger contacted the saw blade located above the collector box resulting in an amputation injury.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high