Incident date: 2025-01-30
NAICS industry code: 322121

The injured employee was assisting another employee with a wheel turn up (changing papers) on a paper machine. The paper sheet was not following the new spool. The employees were using a 5-foot wooden pole to tuck. The pole hit a nip point, causing the end of the pole to whip and strike the injured employee's left hand. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Paper production machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate