Incident date: 2015-01-26
NAICS industry code: 332322

An employee suffered an amputation of the tip of his thumb while assisting in rolling metal into a power roller machine.  The employee reached back to get a better hold on the material when his thumb got too close to the rolls. His thumb was caught between a roll and the metal.  The second employee backed the rolls up to release the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high