Incident date: 2015-08-26
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee sustained a serious injury when wiping wood dust residue from the notching machine.  The machine caught his glove and pulled the employee's hand into the point of operation. The right hand was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: high