Incident date: 2016-03-23
NAICS industry code: 336350

While loading friction paper into a laminator, an employee's left hand became caught between platens, lacerating the third and fourth fingers. The fourth finger had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high