Incident date: 2015-10-26
NAICS industry code: 322211

An employee was servicing the #128 Rotary Die Cutter.  The machine was de-energized and locked out.  The employee was using a timing wrench to adjust a bar and belt in the machine.  As the employee was twisting the wrench, his finger got pinched between the bar and another part of the machine.  The twisting action combined with the pinch point caused the employee to suffer an avulsion to the thumb on his left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Paper production machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high