Incident date: 2015-07-21
NAICS industry code: 512110

An employee sawing a piece of wood hit a knot while making a making a notch cut, causing the saw to grab the piece of lumber, which then pulled his left hand into the saw blade and amputated his fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high