Incident date: 2016-12-17
NAICS industry code: 313230

An employee was cleaning a card machine's rollers. When the employee removed the roller belt, the rollers moved and pulled the employee's left arm between two rollers. The employee suffered a left forearm avulsion and partial amputation of the left pinky and forefinger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Picking, carding, combing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: high