Incident date: 2015-08-10
NAICS industry code: 332996

An employee was using an emery cloth to hand polishing a part being rotated by a manual horizontal lathe. The cloth was caught by the rotating part which pulled the employee's arm into the machine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate