Incident date: 2022-07-18
NAICS industry code: 314910

An employee had just drilled a hole in an aluminum tent pole. When the employee reached around the chip guard to remove the pole from the jig, the drill bit caught the employee's glove. The employee's right ring finger was lacerated and dislocated, and was amputated at the second knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Drills-stationary
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high