Incident date: 2015-02-23
NAICS industry code: 332999

On 23 February 2015, at approximately 1030 hrs at the Flogistix manufacturing site in Pampa, Texas, employee was cutting a metal stud on a chop saw when the material kicked back and crushed the distal phalanx of the index finger (right hand). The employee was taken to Pampa Memorial Hospital where physicians opted to amputate due to the extent of the injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Metal materials-nonstructural, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high