Incident date: 2015-10-08
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was trying to change the spacer on a bar cut off saw. He reached back to the controls meaning to hit the "spacer toggle button" to adjust the spacer, but hit the "vice close button" instead which made the vice close onto the employee's left hand resulting in a partial amputation of the index and middle fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high