Incident date: 2022-03-15
NAICS industry code: 333111

An employee was using an emery cloth to clean a part on a lathe. The rotating jaws of the chuck caught the cloth and pulled in his gloved left hand, deeply lacerating the middle finger. The fingertip was medically amputated just behind the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high