Incident date: 2018-12-05
NAICS industry code: 333512

An employee was running the horizontal band saw. As the employee was pulling out the piece of cut tubing the saw blade caught the employee's glove and pulled his hand onto the cutting surface under the blade. The employee sustained the amputation of four fingers from his left hand.

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