Incident date: 2019-03-20
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was operating a trim saw when one of the chains on the material conveyor jumped the tracks. The employer shut down the saw and proceeded to disconnect the conveyor chain to move it into the correct tooth of the driver sprocket. Once the conveyor chain was loose, the injured employee lifted it out of its track to reposition it and contacted the sawblade, which was still spinning at the time, with the back of his hand. The spinning blade contacted all four fingers of the injured employee's right hand, completely cutting off the end of the little finger.  The injured employee's ring finger was not completely severed, but the second (middle) joint of this finger was completely cut by the spinning blade. The employee's middle and index fingers were mostly still intact, but deeply cut.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high