Incident date: 2019-05-08
NAICS industry code: 623110

An employee was operating a router machine mounted to the table. As he was pushing the wood, the router kicked back and his left ring finger contacted the blade resulting in amputation of the employee's left ring finger at the nail bed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
severity: high