Incident date: 2024-08-06
NAICS industry code: 561320

An employee was operating a drill press and adding a new metal piece to the worktable to be drilled when his right glove was caught by the drill and his hand was pulled into the machine. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations to their right wrist, thumb, and little finger, a fracture to the right thumb, and injuries to tendons and nerves.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Stationary drills, milling machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s) and wrist(s)
severity: moderate