Incident date: 2025-07-17
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was cutting 6-inch round stock (steel) in a horizontal scissor-style band saw. A 16-inch long cut piece was being manually repositioned for lifting when it shifted. The piece caught the employee's left middle and ring fingertips against the frame of the band saw. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated. They also sustained a crushing injury to their ring finger and loss of a fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object handled by person  unspecified
code_source: title: Beams and rails  metal
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high