Incident date: 2020-05-09
NAICS industry code: 332812

On May 9, 2020, an employee was using an Allen wrench to tighten a manual lathe when the wrench slipped, resulting in his left ring finger hitting the lathe's blade. His fingertip was amputated. The lathe was not in operation at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Metalworking lathes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high