Incident date: 2019-03-12
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee had been cutting a plastic sheet using a panel saw. As he was picking up the pieces he had cut off, the saw grabbed his left glove and pulled his thumb into the blade, resulting in an amputation between the nail and the joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Saws-powered, except chainsaws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high