Incident date: 2016-12-20
NAICS industry code: 321911

An employee was changing the dust collection drum on a CNC router when the dust collection system's airlock amputated his right index finger at the middle phalange. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high