Incident date: 2025-01-06
NAICS industry code: 339994

An employee was operating a re-winder machine, re-winding fabric rolls for use in production. The employee's fingers became caught in a nip point and were pulled into the spinning fabric. The employee suffered a crush injury to their right middle finger, resulting in hospitalization and medical amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Winders, unwinders
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high