Incident date: 2023-10-02
NAICS industry code: 326112

An employee was removing woven fabric from a coater machine using scissors. The rollers caught the end of the scissors and twisted them and the employee's fingers, resulting in a fracture and lacerations. The employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery to their little finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate