Incident date: 2024-04-19
NAICS industry code: 333992

On April 19, 2024, an employee was using a vertical belt sander to sand a burr off a piece of metal. The piece of metal got caught between the belt and the rest of the table and pulled the employee's left index finger into the sanding belt resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Sanding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high