Incident date: 2022-04-20
NAICS industry code: 332322

An employee was cleaning a saw with a water hose. The handle of the hose caught in the sawblade and the employee's hand was drawn into the blade resulting in amputation of their right middle finger at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high