Incident date: 2015-08-17
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was making adjustments to a vise on a cold saw machine when the vise clamped down on the employee's left hand, fracturing two fingers and partially amputating the index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high