Incident date: 2015-10-12
NAICS industry code: 332999

On October 12, 2015, at approximately 1:30am, an employee suffered the amputation of his left arm (up to the shoulder) after it became caught in the bridle roller, a power unit that moves the strip of metal at 300 feet per minute, while the employee was troubleshooting it.  A guard was removed and the line lock procedure was not used.

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: Upper arm(s)
severity: high