Incident date: 2025-03-20
NAICS industry code: 321918

On March 20, 2025, an employee was watching the acoustic backing section of a line. He noticed that there was a trim from the acoustic layer wrapped around the first pressure roll section on the non-operator side. He went to remove the trim and his leather glove got caught in the nip point. His index fingertip was amputated at the fingernail. The machine was running and a guard was in place at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high