Incident date: 2015-11-05
NAICS industry code: 326122

An employee was turning a shaft on a lathe and polishing it with an emery cloth. The employee's glove got caught in the lathe pulling the employee's left hand into the machine and amputating the left middle fingertip and crushing the index and ring fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high