Incident date: 2022-05-24
NAICS industry code: 326299

An employee was sanding a metal mesh part on a disk sander. The piece of metal was pulled into the gap between the table and the sanding disk, and the employee's left thumb contacted the sand paper. The top of the thumb (about 5/8 of an inch) was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Grinding, polishing machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high