Incident date: 2022-12-30
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was sanding a part in a horizontal machining lathe. The sandpaper got caught in the part that the employee was working on, pulling the employee's arm into the rotating part. The employee sustained a left forearm fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate