Incident date: 2022-04-07
NAICS industry code: 314999

An employee was working on a precision cutter that takes yarn off of cones by unraveling it. The employee was pulling cones out of a box and tying new filament to existing filament strands when a knot formed beneath his right hand and caught his right index finger, resulting in an avulsion that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Yarn, thread
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate