Incident date: 2018-04-18
NAICS industry code: 423120

An employee was using polishing paper to polish the rotating shaft on a lathe machine when her right-hand fingers were pinched by the polishing paper and her wrist was pulled down into the rotating shaft. Her right wrist was fractured and three digits were de-gloved.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate