Incident date: 2022-03-07
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was threading a calender stack after a paper sheet break. As the employee plugged the tail into the nip using a threading tool with his right hand, his left hand was caught up in the paper piling up beside him. He suffered partial amputations (through the bone) to the left index finger, middle finger, and ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Calenders, supercalenders-paper production
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high