Incident date: 2016-09-26
NAICS industry code: 314999

An employee was cleaning a moving printer roller with a paint scraper while holding a rag in his left hand. The rag became caught inside the printer roller and anilox roller gears, pulling his left hand in and causing an amputation.

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: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: high