Incident date: 2024-11-18
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was using a meat saw to cut beef shanks when his right hand slipped and the saw contacted his right thumb and index finger. The employee sustained a partial fingertip amputation of the distal phalanx.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high