Incident date: 2024-06-03
NAICS industry code: 321999

On June 3, 2024, at approximately 9:29 AM, an employee was using a rotating cutter on a wood shaper machine to cut rabbets in door panels. He was placing tape over some openings between the fence and the top cover to prevent wood dust from blowing out of the machine when his right middle finger contacted the cutter resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Boring, planing, milling machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high