Incident date: 2018-06-01
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was picking a piece of emery cloth out from between the roller and arbor of a tube cutting machine when the employee's right thumb was caught between the roller and arbor. The employee pulled the thumb back, and the nail and some skin were partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high