Incident date: 2016-05-17
NAICS industry code: 337110

An employee was cutting a piece of wood. While he was guiding it with his left hand and using a push stick in his right hand, the piece of wood kicked back causing his left hand to come in contact with the saw blade resulting in a severe laceration to the left thumb. Part of the employee's left thumb was later amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Table saws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high