Incident date: 2017-02-20
NAICS industry code: 444190

On the morning of February 20, 2017, at approximately 7:37 AM, an employee was using an emery cloth to polish a small copper electrode part on a lathe. His glove or the cloth became caught in the lathe's rotating chuck, which then avulsed his left ear and face, caused an abrasion on his left hand, and broke his left clavicle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate