Incident date: 2017-07-06
NAICS industry code: 323111

An employee was performing maintenance on a printing press. The press was locked/tagged out, and the employee disengaged and removed the folder mechanism. The employee then attempted to re-engage the folder mechanism and slid it back into the press. As he was re-engaging the mechanism, his left index finger was caught and partially amputated in the mechanism's gear and chain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Presses-printing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high