Incident date: 2025-03-24
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was loading bar stock into a screw machine when a rag was caught in the machine's spindle and twisted around the employee's right little finger. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high