Incident date: 2024-06-01
NAICS industry code: 541715

On June 3, 2024, an employee was using a lathe to bore a hole in a piece of 2-inch steel when the drill punched through the metal, catching his left little and ring fingers between the metal and the base. The employee sustained a laceration and compound fracture to the left ring fingertip. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Lathes
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: moderate