Incident date: 2017-03-07
NAICS industry code: 332117

An employee was operating a lathe to polish a twenty pound pin. The pin came out of the lathe chuck and struck his left middle finger. The employee was hospitalized for surgery on the fractured finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Parts and materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate