Incident date: 2024-09-04
NAICS industry code: 311423

An employee was placing a block of beef livers on the table of a band saw to be cut when the table slide moved and the block pushed two fingers on his left hand into the blade. The employee sustained amputations of his middle finger just above the distal knuckle and his ring finger at the base of the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high