Incident date: 2022-04-22
NAICS industry code: 337121

An employee was blowing sawdust off a CNC router with an air hose. The hose became entangled in a moving part of the router's table. While the employee was trying to untangle the hose, his right index finger was caught between the table and a fixed part. The employee underwent a medical amputation of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high