Incident date: 2019-03-04
NAICS industry code: 336419

An employee was setting up a lathe. As he turned the chuck with a chuck key, his left little finger was caught between the key and the operator panel. The fingertip was amputated to the nailbed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high