Incident date: 2022-01-12
NAICS industry code: 323111

An employee was operating a mechanical letterpress. The employee reached to pick up scrap trim from the floor. The scrap trim was caught in the press's drive gears, which pulled in the employee's right index finger and amputated it at the second knuckle.

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