Incident date: 2022-04-30
NAICS industry code: 326112

On April 30, 2022, an employee was removing a finished roll of film from the shaft of a winder. As the employee manually pulled the 80-pound roll, his right ring finger was pinched between the cardboard core of the roll and an indention from a missing shaft plug on the steel shaft. The employee sustained an amputation to the right ring finger that included the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Winders, unwinders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high