Incident date: 2024-06-22
NAICS industry code: 336111

On June 22, 2024, an employee was learning how to drill screws using a hanging torque gun. The drill bit caught his left glove and he sustained a medical amputation of his left ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Wrenches, ratchets
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high