Incident date: 2018-05-30
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was disassembling wooden pallets when his left hand went into the rotating circular band saw. The saw blade amputated his left thumb and finger behind the fingernail. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Band saws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high