Incident date: 2024-04-02
NAICS industry code: 221118

An employee was using an emery cloth and a lathe to polish pins when their glove was pulled into a pinch point between the spinning pin and the cloth. This resulted in a laceration to the left index finger and a metacarpal fracture requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Lathes
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate