Incident date: 2024-11-05
NAICS industry code: 337110

An employee was machining front frame stiles and rails in the dowel machine when the hold-down clamp came down and pinched the tip of their right thumb. The employee sustained an amputation to the thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high