Incident date: 2024-07-02
NAICS industry code: 323111

An employee was removing a roll of media from a printing press machine with the provided hoist when the roll shaft became jammed. The employee was manually unjamming it when the shaft released and pinched his right little finger into the cradle that holds the bearing for the shaft. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
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