Incident date: 2018-08-08
NAICS industry code: 313230

An employee was winding rolls of sorbent plastic material when one of the cores became stuck. She hit the core with the palm of her hand as instructed to make it move again. It began rolling and her left hand was caught and crushed in the machine. She suffered bruising and a fracture to the middle finger, a cut to the end of the middle finger that needed stitches, and some bone chipping to the pinky finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Winders, unwinders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high