Incident date: 2022-02-15
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was working underneath a creel calender machine, using a tool to straighten/comb wires as they enter the creel. The employee's tool contacted a pressure roller and was pulled into a pinch point along with the employee's right hand resulting in amputations to the right thumb tip, and two other fingertips.

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