Incident date: 2019-11-03
NAICS industry code: 332431

On November 01, 2019, an employee was cleaning a mandrel (metal cylinder which holds the can) of a can printing decorating machine when the printer jogged, causing his right hand to be caught between machine's mandrel and blanket wheel (transfers the image onto the can). The employee suffered a laceration and fracture to his right hand, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Other special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate