Incident date: 2024-05-06
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was removing cores from waste paper bobbins with a pneumatic ram. When he stopped to remove scrap paper, the ram retracted and caught his right hand between the ram and the guard, resulting in an amputation of the middle finger at the distal knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Paper production machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high