Incident date: 2018-10-07
NAICS industry code: 445110

At about 3:15-3:30 p.m. on October 7, 2018, an apprentice meat cutter at EGW was cutting lamb using a bandsaw. The saw blade hit a bone in the lamb, and the employee's hand was pulled into the blade. He suffered a laceration and fracture of his right index finger, and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate