Incident date: 2019-02-01
NAICS industry code: 326111

An employee was sanding a steel shaft on a lathe and performing maintenance when their glove was caught by the shaft pulling his right hand into the shaft and amputating the middle finger at the first joint below the finger nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high