Incident date: 2022-01-07
NAICS industry code: 332311

An employee was operating a roll form machine and attempted to remove glue from one of the rollers using a rag. The rollers caught the rag, causing the fingers on the employee's right hand to be pulled into the roller and crushed resulting in a partial amputation to the ring finger. The machine was locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high