Incident date: 2015-03-19
NAICS industry code: 611310

An employee was smoothing burs off of a piece of metal using a disc sander. The metal got caught and pulled the employee's right thumb into the sander, peeling the skin back. The tip of the bone was removed during subsequent surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Sanders-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high