Incident date: 2015-03-06
NAICS industry code: 337125

An employee was using a saw that kept clogging with sawdust. The employee placed the vac hose at the bottom of the saw, and the hose was sucked into the bottom. He sustained an amputation to his right-hand index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high