Incident date: 2021-01-28
NAICS industry code: 332439

An employee was operating a ring rolling machine when he noticed a cut off slug had fallen into the overlap press. He pressed the quit button on the controller to stop the machine. He then reached into the overlap press to clear the debris and the press crushed the two middle fingers on his right hand, resulting in a partial amputation of the two fingers just below the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high