OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221445158

HARVARD LABEL LLC

CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA· 2021-09-23T00:00:00

Event: Adjust, Align, Aligning, Amputated, Amputation, Conveyor, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fingertip, Hand, Injury Illness Prevention Program, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Operator, Partial Amputation, Press Operator, Printer, Printing, Printing Press, Reaching, Reaching In, Sealing Machine, Struck By, Traumatic Amputation
NAICS: 541860
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345652622
Employer profile: HARVARD LABEL LLC
Summary number: 221445158
Report ID: 0950644

Event description

Employee amputates fingertip when struck by printer heat sea

Investigation abstract

At 8:00 a.m. on September 23, 2021, an employee working as a printing machine operator for a marketing service was operating the HH3 multipack machine. The employee observed a card moving on the conveyance that was not aligned correctly. She reached into the machine with her right hand to adjust the card. Her hand was struck by the heat seal press as it travelled down. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization for an amputated fingertip.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 36 F

Event type
1

Occupation code
737

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