Incident date: 2016-07-13
NAICS industry code: 337121

On July 12, 2016, an employee was admitted to the hospital as a result of crushing injuries that resulted in a laceration across the palm of the hand. The employee was cleaning the rollers on a roll coater machine with a cotton shop rag when a hand was pulled into an in-running nip-point between rollers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate