SPRINGBORO, OHIO—
Paper Systems, Inc.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Paper Systems, Inc., 185 South Pioneer Blvd., SPRINGBORO, OHIO 45066 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee manually pushed an unwind shaft into the mill roll and got his right ring finger pinched between the shaft bearing and the mill roll resulting in amputation just below the fingertip at the first knuckle.
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