Incident date: 2017-03-31
NAICS industry code: 561499

An employee was polishing a shaft with an emery cloth while the shaft was spinning in a lathe when the emery cloth caught on a bur and pulled his right thumb into the machine, partially amputating it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high