Incident date: 2017-04-03
NAICS industry code: 326113

The injured employee was cleaning the lower plates of a printing press with a towel wrapped around his right hand. A second employee was cleaning/setting up the upper portion of the press. The injured employee's hand was pulled into the press, due to the towel; partially amputating his right thumb and crushing the right ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Presses-printing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high