Incident date: 2023-09-21
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was inflating a shaft inside a roll. The employee placed his right thumb on the valve to release air from the shaft. When the air pressure began to release, the roll shifted and pinched his right thumb, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high