Incident date: 2019-06-11
NAICS industry code: 324122

An employee was operating an asphalt saturator when a break in paper occurred. The employee was removing the asphalt-saturated paper from the saturator box when a roller caught the employee's gloved left hand and pinned it against the gate, crushing and burning it. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate