Incident date: 2022-08-03
NAICS industry code: 333922

An employee was using emery cloth to clean and polish a shaft on a lathe. The cloth got caught in the rotating shaft and pulled the employee's hand into the lathe resulting in a laceration to the hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate