Incident date: 2018-10-31
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was showing another employee how to run the portable lathe when their finger contacted the lathe resulting in surgical amputation of the left index finger at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high