Incident date: 2025-07-16
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was sanding a metal tube with sandpaper on a lathe when the sandpaper got caught and wrapped around the tube. The employee's gloved left hand became caught in the lath and he suffered an amputation to the tip of his left thumb and severe tendon/nerve damage to his left arm. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Lathes
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high