Incident date: 2016-09-30
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee placed a bundle of steel bar stock into a horizontal band saw when he suffered a severe laceration to the right index finger, requiring surgical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Band saws
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high