Incident date: 2019-11-22
NAICS industry code: 336510

An employee was using sand paper to manually finish a part on a lathe. The employee's glove got caught on the spinning lathe and pulled his arm into the lathe. The employee was hospitalized for an injury to his right hand and lower forearm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate