Incident date: 2015-01-18
NAICS industry code: 336611

While manufacturing a shaft pin on a metal lathe, an employee in the Bldg. #304 Machine Shop was sanding the rotating pin with an emery cloth.  The cloth bound and pulled the employee into the rotating lathe machine, resulting in a left broken hand and lacerations on the right hand that required surgery and in-patient hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Hand(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate