Incident date: 2018-02-06
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was operating a lever to kick feed out from the chuck of a horizontal turret lathe when a metal shaving came out and struck the employee's left hand, causing a deep laceration between the thumb and index finger. The employee suffered tendon damage that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate