Incident date: 2024-09-25
NAICS industry code: 326160

An employee was sanding a piece of metal on a bench sander when the work piece and the employee's gloved hand were pulled into the sanding wheel causing an amputation injury without bone loss to the employee's right thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Sanding machinery
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high