Incident date: 2015-07-02
NAICS industry code: 511110

An employee degloved his left ring finger when his ring got caught while performing an adjustment on a straight line inserter machine. The employee was hospitalized and underwent a surgical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Printing machinery and equipment, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high