Incident date: 2019-02-28
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was operating a lathe with a vacuum ejector. The part being ejected got caught in the unloader tube; as the employee was removing it, the employee's left index finger was caught between the ejector tube and the next part. The finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high