Incident date: 2024-02-08
NAICS industry code: 321999

On February 8, 2024, at 6:40 a.m., an employee was operating a hinge boring machine when the back of his left gloved hand was caught by a rotating 35-mm bit, resulting in a circular puncture injury that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Boring, reaming, routing, notching machinery
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate