Incident date: 2015-10-01
NAICS industry code: 332216

An employee working on a vertical polisher machine was installing a saw blade. He was hoisting a blade onto an arbor with a spacer.  While aligning the blade to the bushing and arbor, he pushed the blade and bushing with one hand and operated the hoist with the other.  The blade slipped off the hoist and fell on his left thumb, amputating the tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Saw blades-unattached
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high