Incident date: 2025-03-05
NAICS industry code: 332111

An employee was operating a lathe and a mill when the machine part they were holding slipped, pinching their right middle fingertip between a bushing flange and a machine fixture. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip to the base of the nailbed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Boring, planing, milling machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high