Incident date: 2017-05-11
NAICS industry code: 511110

An employee was using a towel to clean water drops off a press ink ball when the loose end of the towel was drawn into the press. The employee's finger was also drawn in and amputated.

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), n.e.c.
severity: high