Incident date: 2015-08-20
NAICS industry code: 314999

On August 20, 2015, an employee was rethreading the extruded tube product into the belted puller. The rollers caught his glove and pulled his left thumb into the nip point, crushing it. He was hospitalized for a left thumb contusion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate