Incident date: 2024-02-22
NAICS industry code: 322299

An employee working at a printing press was cleaning printing plates (rollers) with a rag. The rag was caught in the moving rollers and his right hand was pulled into the press, resulting in a right middle fingertip amputation.

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