Incident date: 2019-05-20
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was positioning a piece of steel in a band saw's pneumatically powered clamp mechanism to hold the sample for cutting when his right thumb distal tip was caught in the clamp. He suffered a partial amputation of the thumb tissue under the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Band saws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high