Incident date: 2020-05-07
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was changing out a paper roll set on a winder. The core chucks were being retracted, and he was clearing a piece of paper from them when the tip of his left index finger was caught in the wedge hole. As the chuck retracted into the outer cylinder, about a centimeter of the fingertip was sheared off.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Slitters, winders-paper production
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high