Incident date: 2024-01-24
NAICS industry code: 322211

An employee was sanding steel/metal product on a spinning vertical sander. The steel/metal product was pulled inside the belt opening, along with the employee's left thumb, resulting in amputation of the thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Sanding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high