Incident date: 2017-09-27
NAICS industry code: 325998

An employee was loading sticks of material into a multi-saw when a stick became jammed as it was being fed it into the saw blade area. She opened a side door hatch to access the feed compartment and used her fingers to try and adjust the jammed stick. The machine s pneumatic feeding system pushed air into the material feed compartment, which then pushed the stick and the employee s left index finger into the rotating saw blades. Her left index finger was amputated just below the first 
knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
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