Incident date: 2024-01-03
NAICS industry code: 336412

An employee was holding a handheld router in his left hand. As he went to switch off the router, the cutting blade contacted a piece of wood. The blade then caught and degloved two of the employee's fingers; the employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Routers, molders
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate