Incident date: 2022-11-14
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was performing maintenance on one end of a paper machine. As the employee walked away from that part of the machine, a nip point on another part of the machine caught the employee's right-hand fingers and crushed them. The employee's middle and ring fingers were medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Paper production machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high