Incident date: 2015-10-07
NAICS industry code: 337215

An employee in the fabrication shop was operating a tube saw and amputated her right thumb from the base of the nail bed to the tip when the guard crushed her thumb before she could get her hand out of the way.

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