Incident date: 2017-04-01
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was setting up a steel bar on a lathe and tried to move the steady rest, which was open. When contacted, the top part of the steady rest fell onto and broke his right hand. He was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate