Incident date: 2019-06-22
NAICS industry code: 332312

A maintenance employee was completing work on a metal shaft that was in a milling machine. The employee turned the milling equipment on and was polishing the end of the rotating shaft with a piece of emery cloth. During the process, his glove or the emery cloth wrapped around the rotating shaft, pulling his hand onto the shaft. He suffered a dislocation to his left little finger, as well as an avulsion and partial amputation to a left distal fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Milling machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high