Incident date: 2025-03-10
NAICS industry code: 332216

At about 9:00 a.m. on March 10, 2025, an employee was operating a lathe when a part jammed inside it. The employee was removing the jammed part when the machine's slide shifted, causing the lathe spindle to amputate his left ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Lathes
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high