Incident date: 2025-05-04
NAICS industry code: 493190

An employee was turning a brake rotor and went to adjust the cutter teeth of the brake lathe when his gloved left middle finger was pulled into the cutting tooth. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation halfway through the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Lathes
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high