Incident date: 2023-06-16
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was assisting three other employees to load a reel of paper into the saddles of an unwind stand when the springs compressed and the gap closed on the injured employee s finger. They sustained an avulsion to the left ring fingertip that was surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Paper production machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high