Incident date: 2017-03-20
NAICS industry code: 336360

On March 20, 2017, at approximately 6:30 p.m., an employee was guiding a sample leather sheet through the roller machine. The employee's hands were pulled into the machine and caught between the top and lower rollers resulting in a fractured right thumb and fractured metacarpals in both hands including lacerations, abrasions and contusions to both hands.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Miscellaneous machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate