Incident date: 2015-05-04
NAICS industry code: 326121

An employee in the machine shop was polishing an in-house die on a horizontal lathe when the employee's finger got caught on the chuck/die and was pulled in. The finger was dislocated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Dislocations, unspecified
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate