Incident date: 2024-09-18
NAICS industry code: 336414

An employee was deburring a metal piece using a disc sander when their right thumb contacted the sanding surface, resulting in a partial traumatic metacarpophalangeal amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Sanding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high