Incident date: 2018-06-15
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was using a chop saw to cut a stack of pallet boards when his left-hand fingers made contact with the rotating saw blade, amputating his middle and pointer fingers down to the third knuckle. His thumb was still partially attached at the time of the incident.

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