Incident date: 2015-07-16
NAICS industry code: 322212

An employee was looking for debris on the rollers of the flexographic printer. She pulled the web back and her left-hand thumb got caught by the impressing roll and print cylinder. Her thumb was degloved and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Printing machinery and equipment, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate