Incident date: 2019-01-11
NAICS industry code: 332996

An employee was troubleshooting a roller that was not rolling on the rolling mill. He stepped to the side and tried to manually roll it when the roller began to roll and his fingers were pinched between the roller and the pipe going through the mill. He suffered partial amputations to his right middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high