Incident date: 2015-04-01
NAICS industry code: 332911

An employee was setting up a valve in a lathe. He was tightening the lathe chuck with an Allen wrench; when he tried to remove the wrench from the chuck, his left middle fingertip got caught between the Allen wrench and the machine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Wrenches-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high