Incident date: 2016-01-13
NAICS industry code: 561320

An employee was removing a stop from the rollers on a conveyor system, which had been put in place to keep the 55-gallon drums of grease from rolling. A coworker started moving the drum while the employee's finger was still near where the stop was removed. His finger was smashed and amputated between the drum and the metal rollers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high