Incident date: 2017-09-21
NAICS industry code: 441310

An employee was drilling a hole into a fixture with a lathe on 9/21/2017. The employee leaned into the machine to line up the drill bit and the employee's shirt was caught in the worm-screw resulting in a left arm fracture and a stroke. The worm-screw was not guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Stroke
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate