Incident date: 2017-11-03
NAICS industry code: 337215

An employee was cleaning a burr off of rectangular metal with a wire brush machine when the employee's glove became caught in the machine. The employee's hand was then pulled into the machine, scraping skin off the bottom of the hand and the pinky and ring fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Grinding, polishing machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate