Incident date: 2022-12-20
NAICS industry code: 337211

On December 20, 2022, an employee was working with a machine. He had just placed material into the machine's drilling area, and was lowering the material hold-down to start the drilling process, when the hold-down caught his hand. The rotating drill bit contacted his right ring fingertip, amputating it in the fingernail area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high