OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14460398
BELL PRINTING INC
FREDERICK, MD—
Event description
Employee's fingers injured in offset press rollers
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was cleaning lint from the ink rollers of a Harborberg offset press, d that he had been trained in safety procedures and knew what was safe and what was not. Employee #1 also indicated that guards were not in place on the machine on the day he was injured. The machine had a jog and/or inch method built-in th at should have prevented the continuous rapid rotation of the rollers during cle aning. a duty he performed several times a day. He lost his balance, and as he tried t o steady himself, his left hand became caught between the operating ink rollers. He called to a coworker, who shut off the power and called an ambulance. The co worker tried to extricate Employee #1's fingers from the machine, but failed. Me dical technicians removed the rollers, releasing the fingers. Part of Employee # 1's left thumb was amputated and the bones splintered in three other fingers. Em ployee #1 had been a full-time pressman for another employer for 13 years, and h ad been working part-time as a pressman with this company for 4 months. He state
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 734
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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