Incident date: 2024-07-22
NAICS industry code: 336612

The injured employee was helping another employee position an aluminum coil onto rollers to spool the sheets onto a table to be cut by a computerized plasma torch. The injured employee's right hand was pulled under the roll and the underside of all their right-hand fingers sustained lacerations and contusions. The little fingertip was amputated and the employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high