Incident date: 2018-12-29
NAICS industry code: 424110

An employee was helping others tuck a new sheet onto a re-reeling machine spool. His right hand got caught in the spool, and the machine pinched his middle, ring, and little fingers. He was hospitalized and his little finger was surgically removed just above the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high