Incident date: 2024-03-17
NAICS industry code: 322211

A maintenance employee was reinstalling the guard after repairing an ink pump when it slipped from their grasp and the employee's left ring finger contacted the moving belt and pulley, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Printing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high