Incident date: 2016-06-09
NAICS industry code: 322211

An employee was repositioning a piece of cardboard over the vacuum holes of a printing press when the piece was drawn into the machine. His left hand was also pulled in, de-gloving the top of the hand and amputating the index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Presses-printing
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: high