Incident date: 2024-04-24
NAICS industry code: 423510

On April 24, 2024, an employee was loading steel stock onto a band saw. As the employee went to manually close the vise, their right index finger got caught between the material on the table and the moving vise, resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Stationary saws  band
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high