Incident date: 2015-08-25
NAICS industry code: 332710

A worker was wearing leather work gloves and cutting aluminum bar stock on a horizontal band saw.  His hand contacted the moving saw blade and was pulled in causing an amputation of the left index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Band saws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high