Incident date: 2022-01-21
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was operating a bandsaw on a butt line to remove double bones from product. The employee tried to use a push stick to remove product from the bandsaw cutting platform, then reached to remove the product by hand and suffered a partial amputation to the ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high