Incident date: 2018-02-28
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was cleaning between the pipe roller stands in a prep rack when a pop-up roller was activated and lowered. The employee's arm was caught between the roller stops, breaking it and requiring hospitalization.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate