Incident date: 2019-03-06
NAICS industry code: 423740

A maintenance technician was trying to free a piece of metal lodged in a metal roll former. The machine engaged and crushed the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers. The ring finger was amputated.

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), n.e.c.
severity: high