Incident date: 2025-01-20
NAICS industry code: 321918

An employee was using a 7-foot long wire brush connected to a cordless drill while wearing gloves when their gloved hand was caught on the rotating wire brush. The employee sustained a medical amputation of their little fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Drills, braces, drivers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high