Incident date: 2018-12-10
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was operating a lathe with sandpaper to remove burrs from a shaft. The employee's  glove was caught between the spinning shaft and the sandpaper resulting in a right index finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high