Incident date: 2020-12-04
NAICS industry code: 333241

An employee was installing an adapter on a lathe. While attempting to loosen a retaining collar from the existing shaft setup, his left ring finger was momentarily pinched between the retaining collar and the machine frame, resulting in a partial amputation on his left ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high