Incident date: 2019-05-14
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was cutting vinyl on a saw when a piece of vinyl was caught. She removed her foot from the pedal and went to remove the caught material. The saw was reactivated via the foot pedal resulting in amputation of her left middle fingertip at the nail bed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high