Incident date: 2025-04-06
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee was using a metal lathe to cut 14-inch samples off of titanium tubes when his right glove was caught by the tube and pulled into the lathe. The employee was hospitalized with a partial amputation to the little finger and dislocations to the middle and ring fingers; the ring finger required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Lathes
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high