Incident date: 2024-03-03
NAICS industry code: 333923

An employee was preparing to use a programmable automated vertical band saw. The employee was clamping a piece of angle iron in place on the machine when the clamp caught the employee's left index fingertip. The employee suffered an amputation to the fingertip, up to the edge of the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Stationary saws  band
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high