Incident date: 2019-04-18
NAICS industry code: 335312

An employee was running a lathe to finish a repaired shaft. The employee was using sandpaper to finish the shaft when the employee's shirt was caught in a rotating piece, pulling the employee's arm and hand into the rotating piece. The employee suffered a left ear laceration as well as a broken left arm, wrist, and hand. The employee's left little finger had to be surgically amputated.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high