Incident date: 2024-10-14
NAICS industry code: 333120

An employee was sanding a shaft on a metal lathe. The lathe caught the employee's glove and pulled their hand into the machine, resulting in crushing injuries to their hand and finger. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Lathes
code_nature: title: Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate