Incident date: 2015-01-23
NAICS industry code: 326113

An employee was removing a roll from a machine during normal routine operation when he dropped a heavy core and pinched his finger between two objects. His right ring finger was amputated from the tip to roughly one half of the nailbed. The first knuckle is intact.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high