Incident date: 2017-02-04
NAICS industry code: 332439

While cleaning a lithography press, an employee's rag and left hand were pulled into the roller's point of operation. The machine was running at the time and the employee's hand was partially degloved and his left index, middle and ring fingers were partially amputated. The employee was hospitalized.

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