Incident date: 2018-05-11
NAICS industry code: 335314

On May 11, 2018, an employee was helping another employee load panels onto a CNC router. He had just placed two panels on the vacuum work station when his right hand entered the running tool cutter, amputating his middle and ring fingers. The tool cutter was guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high