Incident date: 2024-08-08
NAICS industry code: 326111

On August 8, 2024, an employee was operating a printing press when he noticed an ink drip. As he moved the plate cylinder into position to clean the printing plate, a rag wrapped around his right hand was pulled into an anilox roller. His right little and ring fingers became caught between the printing plate and roller cylinders, resulting in a partial amputation to the little finger and degloving of the ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Industrial printing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high