Incident date: 2017-12-21
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was setting a work piece into a manual lathe using an overhead crane when the employee's finger was pinched between the machine chuck jaws and the work piece, amputating the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal materials-nonstructural, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high