Incident date: 2017-09-28
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was moving a horizontal idler roller into a skid pan when a colleague tried to assist him. One end of the idler then came down and smashed the employee's middle finger underneath his glove. He suffered a laceration and broken bone, requiring hospitalization. Later, his fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Rollers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high