Incident date: 2018-03-10
NAICS industry code: 311313

An employee was attempting to change a blade on a knife straightener when the blade amputated half of the first digit on the employee's right hand. The knife straightener was operating at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high