Incident date: 2022-01-07
NAICS industry code: 331110

An employee was operating equipment when a piece of bar got stuck in the rolls. He used another piece of bar to dislodge it. The bar was caught, creating a pinch point between the roll and the bar and resulting in amputation of the employee's left ring finger.

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