Incident date: 2019-04-23
NAICS industry code: 423830

An employee was operating a conveyor belt slitter when their thumb was caught between two rollers and pulled into the belt slitter. The employee sustained a degloving injury to the right thumb, requiring hospitalization and a skin graft.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate