Incident date: 2020-10-27
NAICS industry code: 333618

An employee was working on a vertical lathe machine that had an oil leak. The employee used his finger to wipe the oil and his finger got caught between the hydraulic positioning switch and pin resulting in amputation of the fingertip and nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high