Incident date: 2015-04-17
NAICS industry code: 326112

On Friday, April 17, 2015, at approximately 3:45 PM, a machinist was operating a lathe and grinding attachment to smooth a rubber roller. The employee was checking the roller thickness when his left thumb was pulled into the grinder. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip of his left thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Lathes, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high