Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Presstek Holdings, Inc., 230 Shaker Road, ENFIELD, CONNECTICUT 06082
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was performing routine maintenance on a coating machine. A stuck idler roll sprung loose, jamming three of the employee's fingers between the idler roll and the frame of the machine. The employee's middle finger was injured.
HospitalizedFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedSpecial process machinery, unspecified
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