Incident date: 2018-12-26
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was attaching one end of a steel strip from a pancake reel to the end of a steel strip in a machine. The machine started pulling the strip and pulled the employee's hand in, causing a deep laceration (including bone) to the right middle finger. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate