Incident date: 2021-08-06
NAICS industry code: 322299

An employee was trying to adjust the pressure rod and tension ball of a slitter machine. The slitter blade amputated the employee's left index finger. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Slitters, winders-paper production
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high