Incident date: 2023-07-25
NAICS industry code: 326130

An employee was cleaning a machine. As they were scraping the bottom roller of the board coater, their left hand was pulled in and pinched between the underside of the plate and the bottom roller. The employee suffered a left hand degloving injury from the fingertips to their mid-wrist that involved nerve, vessel, and tendon avulsions. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Hand(s) and wrist(s)
severity: moderate