Incident date: 2019-04-05
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was troubleshooting a calender machine when some of the cords became misaligned. The employee's hand was caught between the machine's rollers, causing lacerations, fractures and the amputation of the employee's ring and pinky fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high