Incident date: 2015-07-28
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was cleaning the build-up off the tube mill roll with a rag. The rag pulled the employee's thumb into the nip point between the turkhead roll and the tube, amputating the left thumb.

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