Incident date: 2021-08-25
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was unjamming a roller from a paper machine. The employee pushed on the roller to remove a roll of splice tape that was preventing it from ejecting and caught his right ring finger between the roller shaft and the machine frame. He suffered a crushed fingertip, which was medically amputated.

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