Incident date: 2015-12-05
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was cleaning a transfer roller on a lamination machine with a rag. While using a "job" pedal with his foot in slow speed, he began cleaning the roller. The rag got caught and his hands were pulled into a nip point. He was hospitalized and received stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate