Incident date: 2016-07-07
NAICS industry code: 332613

An employee was operating a manual lathe in the tool room when a metal stringer caught the employee's right hand and pulled it toward the metal on the lathe. The employee suffered deep lacerations to two fingers, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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