Incident date: 2019-10-01
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was pre-drilling holes into steel siding with a handheld cordless drill. The employee's left glove got caught on the drill bit and wrapped around the bit with the employee's thumb still inside. The outer cutting edge of the drill bit amputated the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Drills-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high