Incident date: 2016-01-06
NAICS industry code: 321999

On 01/06/2015, an employee was manually feeding a work piece into a tabletop-mounted router to remove material/shape the edges of the triangular shaped work piece, which was 5-inches long by 2-inches tall. The work piece momentarily became stuck on debris that surrounded the router bit and then unexpectedly moved toward the bit, which caused the employee's right thumb/hand to go beneath the machine guard. The router bit partially amputated the employee's right thumb, removing the skin on the thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high