Incident date: 2022-11-20
NAICS industry code: 311615

On November 11, 2022, an employee was replacing a sprocket and bearings on a shaft. The employee used a lathe in the maintenance shop to clean the shaft when their hand came in contact with a portion of the rotating equipment on the lathe. He sustained amputations of two fingers on his left hand and a finger fracture.

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