Incident date: 2015-01-08
NAICS industry code: 511110

On January 8, 2015, an Abilene Reporter-News employee was working with the large printing press in the company's press room. He stuck his hand into the roller system and had the skin on his right hand removed ("gloved") by the machine. The employee was taken to Hendricks Medical Center in Abilene, Texas, where he was awaiting surgical intervention.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Presses-printing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: high