Incident date: 2024-09-24
NAICS industry code: 333923

An employee dropped a towel near a bandsaw. While retrieving it, the employee's glove was caught in the blade resulting in amputation of their left little fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
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