Incident date: 2016-09-21
NAICS industry code: 323111

On September 21, 2016, around 3:30 a.m., an employee was changing out a 1,400-pound seal-in roller with a hoist when the roller rolled on to his left thumb tip. The thumb tip had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Rollers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high