OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #779363
PRINTING PRESS,FINGER,WORK RULES,CLEANING,CAUGHT BY,THUMB,LOCKOUT,ROLLER--MACH/PART,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee's hand injured when caught in printing press
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a #9 unit printing press. All guards were in place exc b, and index and middle fingers was avulsed. ept the guard on one unit, which had a direct lead webbing due to an ink motor b eing out. With a direct lead webbing, the finger guard must be removed in order to print. This procedure is not unusual for the industry and Employees were inst ructed not to clean the blanket roller on this unit. However, Employee #1 attemp ted to clean the roller with a rag while it was still running, instead of waitin g until the roll of paper needed to be changed and the press was stopped. The ra g became caught between the blanket and the plate cylinder and pulled his right hand into the press. Employee #1 pulled his hand out, but the tissue on his thum
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 734
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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