Incident date: 2018-09-04
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was being trained by a second employee on how to cut a metal frame on a lathe. As they set the metal frame down on the lathe, the first employee's right thumb was caught and crushed between the frame and the lathe chuck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate