Incident date: 2024-01-28
NAICS industry code: 326113

An employee was unloading 18-inch-long PVC film rolls from a wind-up shaft and packaging them. While a roll was moving forward down the shaft, the employee's left middle fingertip was pinched between the core and the shaft. He suffered an amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high