Incident date: 2024-12-27
NAICS industry code: 323111

An employee was cleaning an anilox roller on a printing press when his rag became caught in the rollers. The employee let go of the rag and took a step back, slipped on ink, and fell into the railing bar in front of the anilox roller. The roller bounced up and the employee's hand became caught underneath it as he fell. The employee sustained sustained amputations to the nail beds of two fingers and required stitches to his hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level resulting in exposure or contact
code_source: title: Other constructed surface
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high