Incident date: 2025-06-20
NAICS industry code: 221114

On June 20, 2025, a temporary employee was cleaning the rollers on a rewinder machine when the their fingers were caught in the rollers, resulting in a crush injury and degloving of the right ring fingertip that required a surgical fingertip amputation. The incident occurred during training and the machine was in operation at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Cutters, slitters, winders paper production
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high