Incident date: 2017-04-18
NAICS industry code: 333611

An employee, who was observing a boring operation taking place inside a turbine shell, was sitting on planks (located on the horizontal joints of the turbine) and repositioning in order to stand inside the turbine where it would not be slippery when the boring bar caught and crushed the employee's right thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate