Incident date: 2021-05-12
NAICS industry code: 321912

An employee was operating a drill machine to drill pairs of holes into wooden boards. The employee noticed that the board was not correctly positioned and tried to move it with their left hand while at the same time lowering the lever used to lower the hold-downs/drill bit pairs with their right hand. The board would not move and their left hand slid along the board to one of the drill bit pairs. A drill bit caught the employee's glove and pulled a finger into the drill bit resulting in a fractured finger and partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Drills-stationary
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high