Incident date: 2016-01-12
NAICS industry code: 322222

An employee was using a scouring pad to clean the rubber pressure and printing rollers on a printing press. The machine was running at the time. The employee got caught in the nip point between the rubber pressure roller and the printing roller and was hospitalized with two broken fingers. Surgery had to be performed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Presses-printing
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate