Incident date: 2022-03-14
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was working at a laminator machine. As the employee applied a flag to a damaged area of the laminate that was being made, his left hand was pulled into a set of powered metal rollers about 4 inches in diameter and 5 feet wide. He suffered an amputation to the middle fingertip at the first knuckle, as well as loss of nails on several other fingers and severe tissue damage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high