Incident date: 2024-05-23
NAICS industry code: 333922

An employee was performing production work on a rolling machine when their left glove got caught in the machine. The employee's left hand and wrist were crushed, leading to surgical amputation of all four fingers and part of the thumb. The machine was not guarded at the point of operation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Thumb(s) and finger(s)
severity: high