Incident date: 2025-05-07
NAICS industry code: 326299

An employee was monitoring a cutter machine (back cutter) when the blade came up and caught her fingers. The employee sustained amputations of the tip of her left thumb and her left index fingertip. Shields (guards) were in place at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high