Incident date: 2022-06-30
NAICS industry code: 321912

A temporary employee was helping to change the blades on a bandsaw. One of the two hoods on the saw (which opened for blade replacement) closed on the employee's hand, resulting in an amputation to the right little finger. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Band saws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high