Incident date: 2023-06-29
NAICS industry code: 532412

An employee was cleaning a hitch pin on a manual lathe using a terrycloth rag. The rag was pulled into the spinning three-jaw chuck, pulling his left arm into the machine. The employee sustained an open left arm fracture three inches above the wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Lathes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate