Incident date: 2024-04-17
NAICS industry code: 323111

An employee was pushing a 45-pound sleeve off a cylinder on a printing machine after it had become stuck. The actuating arm activated and pushed the sleeve, crushing his finger and resulting in an amputation to his right little fingertip. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.

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: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high