Incident date: 2019-05-03
NAICS industry code: 326140

An employee had been manually loading a wooden shoe holding device with a die-cut urethane foam piece. As the employee moved the shoe into the cutting machine along a fixed pathway, one of the saw blades came in contact with the shoe, causing the 4" blade to break into many small pieces. One or more of these pieces struck the employee s fingers. The right-hand pinky and ring fingers sustained cuts that required stitches. The ring finger also required surgery for a cut ligament and blood vessel.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Metal chips, particles
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate