Incident date: 2023-02-17
NAICS industry code: 314999

An employee was holding a piece of waste sliver in their left hand while resetting the clearer when the take up shaft grabbed the waste sliver and pulled the employee's left little finger in toward the shaft. The employee sustained an amputation of the top portion of the left little finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high