DateCityStateEmployerBody PartEvent
2021-11-11ColumbusKsCALIBRATED FORMSFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was clearing a paper jam in a printing press. The press caught his left hand and amputated the tufts of the index and middle fingers.
2021-11-09ArlingtonTxMittera GroupHand(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was trying to remove paper from the rollers of a printing press. The rollers caught his hand, crushing and smashing it. He was hospitalized.
2021-10-29HoustonTxNight Owls Print Shop, LLCMultiple trunk locationsCaught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was using a screen printing press to print designs on T-shirts when he was struck by a moving part of the machine. The employee was hospitalized for stomach and back injuries.
2021-10-13GriffinGaTranscontinental US LLCTooth (teeth)Struck by object or equipment
An employee was changing the print sleeve of a printing deck when they were struck in the face and chest by a metal end cap. The employee suffered lost teeth and potential fractures.
2021-09-13MoonachieNj4 Over International, LLCFingertip(s)Fall on same level, n.e.c.
An employee was troubleshooting a paper feeding issue with a printing press. He lost his balance, and while trying to catch himself from falling, he grabbed the power transmission belt. The employee was hospitalized, and three of his fingertips were amputated.
2021-08-26WheelingIlThe Segerdahl Corporation dba SG360Hand(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was webbing paper through the glue unit of a printing press. The employee's hand was pulled between two rollers and crushed.
2021-08-13West ChicagoIlDS Containers, Inc.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning a printing roller when his index and middle fingers were pinched between two rollers. The index finger was medically amputated.
2021-07-28Mount ProspectIlRaulandLumbar regionOverexertion involving outside sources
An employee was loading boxes weighing 20-40 pounds into a cart to replenish supplies for a pad printing machine when they felt a pop in their lower back. The employee was hospitalized for a lower back injury.
2021-07-25OmahaNeGraphic Packaging InternationalHand(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning a printing press. The press rollers caught the employee's right hand and degloved it.
2021-06-17CincinnatiOhEncore Label & PackagingHeartNonclassifiable
An employee was operating a printing press when he felt ill and was transported to the hospital, where he had a heart attack.
2021-06-03Green BayWiLittle Rapids Corp.Arm(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was standing on a stool/ladder to reach a nip point on an unused portion of a printing press, about 10 feet off the floor. The employee was caught between a press nip roll and an idler roller, suffering contusions and damage to skin on both arms.
2021-05-14TavaresFlSunday Cool, LLCArm(s)Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was working at a printing press. The employee was checking T-shirts and ink between two pallets when the machine was shifted, crushing and breaking the employee's right arm.
2021-04-14GroveportOhHeidelberg USA, Inc.Fingertip(s)Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee and a co-worker were troubleshooting a printing press when a part inside the machine came down on the employee's right index fingertip, resulting in an amputation at the cuticle that required surgery to reattach.
2021-04-07GarlandTxMarking Sysems, Inc.Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
The employee was printing labels at the printing machine when the product shifted. The employee was adjusting the product and sustained an amputation to the fingertip.
2021-03-26BradentonFlTeam Edition Apparel, Inc.Back, including spine, spinal cordCaught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was loading t-shirts on a screen printing machine. The printing machine rotated, struck the employee's abdomen, and pinned them between a printing pallet and the screen. The employee sustained bruised ribs and a fractured back.
2021-03-20LufkinTxQG Printing II, LLC.Fingertip(s)Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
At about 3:30 p.m. on March 20, 2021, employees were changing the lap on a signature on a printing press. An employee was checking to see that the lap was flush when his right index finger was caught under a plate. The fingertip was amputated.
2021-02-28BalticCtAmgraph Packaging, Inc.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was adjusting a blade in a printing unit. Two or three fingers on his right hand were crushed between the printing cylinder and the impression cylinder.
2021-01-09De PereWiGreen Bay Packaging IncFingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was troubleshooting the feeding foot of a feeder head on a printing press. A moving part in the press amputated the employee's right index fingertip halfway down the nail.
2020-09-18BalticCtAmgraph Packaging, Inc.Hand(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was working on a lacquer cylinder on a printing press when the cylinder moved and caught his left hand. The employee was hospitalized with a bruised left hand.
2020-09-18AshlandMaTekni-Plex Flexibles, LLC.Hand(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
On September 18, 2020, an employee was servicing a printing press. While manually working on the drive shaft, the machine re-energized and the employee's right hand was caught between the tensioning device and drive belt resulting in an amputation.
2020-09-12LancasterPaLSC Communications US, LLCLower leg(s)Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet
Two employees were loading a roll of paper into a printing press. The decking moved forward as part of the process, and an employee slipped and fell into the resulting opening. The employee suffered a broken tibia.
2020-09-03Feasterville TrevosePaOliver Healthcare PackagingForearm(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was running a re-winder machine when the speed of the machine increased. The employee then slowed down the speed and also tried to stop the re-winding process. The employee's arm was pulled into the printing press resulting in a fracture to the forearm.
2020-09-01ConshohockenPaPhiladelphia InquirerBack, including spine, spinal cordFall on same level due to slipping
An employee was on a work platform located on the second level of a printing press when they slipped and fell backward onto the working surface. The employee sustained a back injury.
2020-06-26Carol StreamIllinoisAmerican Litho, IncorporatedFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was setting timing on the inline section of a printing machine, which had been removed from service and was in a maintenance shop. The employee's right little finger was caught in the timing gear and amputated.
2020-06-05EutawAlabamaWestRock, Inc.Fingertip(s)Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was at a weld press printing station, performing a product change using an overhead crane. His left ring finger got caught between the lock collar and the gear sleeve, causing the amputation of the fingertip.
2020-04-28LincolnRhode IslandGENERAL CABLE INDUSTRIES, LLCNonclassifiableContact with hot objects or substances
An employee was operating a continuous vulcanizing line, which extrudes rubber jacketing around a conductor cable and uses an indent printing process to label the cable. The indent printer housing had a steel cap on the side; the employee had just tightened this cap into place and was making adjustments on a panel when steam pressure ejected the cap into his abdomen. The cap knocked the wind out of him and he suffered first- and second-degree burns from the steam. He was hospitalized.
2020-02-12LibertyMissouriAXIOM IMPRESSIONS II, LLCFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
A temporary employee was running a printing machine when it became jammed. The employee's left hand then became caught in the printing machine and two fingers were crushed. A portion of the left middle finger needed to be medically amputated.
2020-02-06ColumbusOhioGenpak, LLC.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a printing machine. The machine's moving parts amputated the employee's right middle finger at the first knuckle.
2020-01-22East PeoriaIllinoisVersa Press, Inc.Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
On January 21, 2020, at around 3:00 PM, an employee was fixing a printing press when his right hand fingers were caught between the belt and pulley resulting in lacerations to the index and middle fingers. The middle fingertip was surgically amputated.
2019-08-12Black River FallsWisconsinFLASH4.COM, LLC.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
On August 12, 2019, an employee was setting up a printing press, pulling out the paper roll. The machine jogged while the employee's left index finger was inside it, amputating it at the first or second knuckle.
2019-07-24CaledoniaNew YorkSpecialized Printed Forms, Inc.Fingertip(s)Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was feeding a web into the rolls of a printing press when the rolls were jogged while his finger was in the pinch point, resulting in the amputation of the employee's fingertip.
2019-06-17MabelvaleArkansasAxiom Impressions, LLCFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a printing press folder. The employee was jogging the machine to feed the paper back into the folder, after changing out the cutting blades, when his right hand was pulled in. The folder's cutting blade amputated his middle finger and the tips of his index, ring, and little fingers.
2019-05-13CamdenArkansasGilchrist Bag Manufacturing, LLC.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning a printing press with a rag when the press cycled and struck her right hand, amputating her right fifth digit at the first knuckle and fourth digit at the second knuckle.
2019-05-03ToledoOhioPEXCO PACKAGING CORPORATIONForearm(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was wrapping film around a new roll in a printing press during a roll change over. The employee's hand became caught in the press resulting in a fracture to the left forearm.
2019-05-02WaukeshaWisconsinKG Marketing and Bag Co., Inc.Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a printing press when their hand was pulled into the rollers resulting in a fingertip amputation.
2019-04-25PoolerGeorgiaSweetener Solutions, LLCFingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was assisting the operator of a vertical form fill sealing (VFFS) machine. He was attempting to align the plastic bags for printing and using the machine activation button to jog the machine when the tip of his left middle finger was caught and amputated between the clamps.
2019-04-17BryanTexasBH Media, Inc.Hand(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was hanging printing plates with a coworker when the coworker released his stop button, allowing the printing press to jog forward to hang the next plate. The injured employee's left hand was caught in a pinch point, suffering lacerations.
2019-03-28Saint RobertMissouriWal-Mart SupercenterThigh(s)Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was sitting at a computer printing paperwork. When she stood up, she tripped on a cord and fell, striking her left hip on the desk and floor. She broke her upper left leg.
2019-03-26Mount OliveIllinoisGeorgia Pacific Corrugated IV LLCHip(s)Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was transferring cleaned printing dies from a vertical drying rack back to a horizontal storage rack, about 4-6 feet away. As she turned toward the storage rack, she slipped on the printing plate and fell to the concrete floor, breaking her hip. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
2019-03-07DaltonMassachusettCrane CurrencyMultiple body partsOther fall to lower level less than 6 feet
At about 10:45 a.m. on March 7, 2019, an employee was at the back of a printing press, where dried paper had wrapped around a carrying roll. He was 3 feet up a 6-foot ladder, removing the stuck paper, when he fell to the cement floor, encountering wall-mounted valves, a metal catch tray on the floor, and a metal grating. He suffered back pain and two lacerations, one to the back of the head and one on the left elbow. Each laceration required stitches.
2019-02-15Saint JamesMissouriMANCHESTER PACKAGING CO.Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was changing a cylinder on a printing press. The employee's left index finger was caught in the hoist used to change the cylinder, causing an amputation to the fingertip.
2019-01-31West ChicagoIllinois J. H. H. OF ILLINOIS, INC. Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was removing the ink from a printing press when her hand was pulled into the rollers, de-gloving her finger. Her fingertip had to be medically amputated.
2019-01-08South PortlandMaineMTM Acquisitions, Inc.Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee's hand was caught in a printing press roller. The employee suffered an open fracture of the right thumb and a partial amputation of the thumb tip.
2019-01-07SmyrnaGeorgiaCenveo Corporation Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was attempting to clean the printing plates of an envelope machine with a towel when his fingers were caught in the printing rollers, resulting in a partial amputation of the third and fourth right-hand fingers.
2018-09-25MechanicsburgPennsylvaniaFry Communications, Inc.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was inching a printing press. Two of the employee's fingers were caught in the press, suffering injuries; the employee was hospitalized.
2018-09-22New YorkNew YorkABC Imaging of Washington, Inc.Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disordersOverexertion involving outside sources
An employee was moving a printing machine when he experienced stomach pain. He was hospitalized for a hernia.
2018-08-24DecaturGeorgiaPlaid EnterprisesFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was attempting to manually adjust a printing press when the machine amputated her right ring finger down to the first knuckle and lacerated her pinky finger.
2018-08-19FranklinOhioHuhtamaki, Inc.Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was attempting to clean a printing machine roller when the employee's finger entered a pinch point, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The roller was unguarded at the time.
2018-08-19BellevilleIllinoisBelleville News DemocratChest, except internal location of diseases or disordersOther fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee leaned back and fell off a 5-foot fixed rail ladder while cleaning blankets on a printing press. He suffered a laceration to the right side of his forehead and two cracked ribs.
2018-07-18HoustonTexasHOUSTON CHRONICLEFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning a printing press after a press run. His gloved finger became stuck in the equipment. His left middle finger was crushed and had to be partially medically amputated.
2018-07-05ButlerNew JerseyButler Printing Laminating IncArm(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
An employee was retrieving paperwork that was next to a printing machine. As she leaned down, her left hand contacted a roll of laminate. Her arm was wrapped around the roll and broken.
2018-06-27SikestonMissouriTETRA PAK MATERIALS, LLCFingertip(s)Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was adjusting plates on a printing press and caught a finger in the gears resulting in a partial amputation to his left middle fingertip.
2018-06-04Saint LouisMissouriPACKAGING CONCEPTSFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning the rollers on a printing press with a rag when the rag was caught in the rollers. His left hand then went into the rollers, amputating his index and middle fingers.
2018-05-04OldsmarFloridaMicon Packaging IncFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was using a printing machine to print boxes when his right hand entered the running machine, amputating his thumb and index finger.
2018-04-26MaconGeorgiaAspen Products, Inc.BrainOther fall to lower level
An employee fell off a ladder and hit his head on a printing press. The employee was hospitalized for a concussion.
2017-10-16Arlington HeightsIllinoisWeber Marking Systems, Inc. dba Weber Packaging Solutions, Inc.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a printing press when the employee's left hand was caught in an unguarded pinch point on the machine, fracturing two fingers.
2017-10-06CelinaOhioReynolds & Reynolds Co.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
On October 6, 2017, an employee was cleaning a rotary printing press when his left index finger was caught and amputated between the press rollers.
2017-10-05SolvayNew YorkBerry Global, Inc.Fingertip(s)Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
An employee was in the process of performing a plate change on a printing press when a locking strut failed, causing a color head to drop. The color head struck the employee's right-hand third digit, causing a distal phalanx fracture and fingertip amputation.
2017-08-14North Kansas CityMissouriHENRY WURST, INC.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was clearing a jammed trimmer on a printing press when the machine amputated the employee's left ring and middle fingers.
2017-07-17WausauWisconsinGRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL INCFingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning the roller on a printing press when the employee's right thumb was pulled into the in-going nip point, partially amputating the thumb tip. The press was unguarded at the time.
2017-07-14DallasPennsylvaniaOffset Paperback Mfrs. Inc.Multiple leg locations Struck by falling object or equipment
On Friday, July 14, 2017, at approximately 12:15 PM, an employee was guiding cans (printing equipment) to a forklift platform when a can behind her fell and struck her left knee and lower leg. She was hospitalized with a crushing injury.
2017-07-14Saint LouisMissouriPACKAGING CONCEPTSFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning the gears of a printing press when the employee's right hand became caught in the gears, amputating the thumb, index finger, and middle finger.
2017-07-13CrossettArkansasHood Packaging CorporationFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was attempting to run paper bags through a printing press. He jogged the paper into place. His left hand was on the press cylinder when it rolled, amputating his left thumb below the nail bed and crushing his left index and middle fingers.
2017-07-06New CastlePennsylvaniaWest Penn PrintingFinger(s), fingernail(s)Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was performing maintenance on a printing press. The press was locked/tagged out, and the employee disengaged and removed the folder mechanism. The employee then attempted to re-engage the folder mechanism and slid it back into the press. As he was re-engaging the mechanism, his left index finger was caught and partially amputated in the mechanism's gear and chain.
2017-06-08HoustonTexasSouthern Container, LtdFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was setting up a printing machine. He was trying to clean the printing plate with a rag when the machine's roller caught the employee's rag and pulled his right hand into the machine, amputating four fingers. The machine was not guarded or locked/tagged out at the time.
2017-06-02StoughtonMassachusettFirst Impression Printing IncorporatedFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was installing a wash tray on a printing press when his rubber glove and then hand was caught in the press rolls, amputating two fingers.
2017-05-26HartlandWisconsinOne TouchPointFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning and removing debris from the printing press and their finger was caught in the infeed of the press when it started up for a new product run. The employee's right index finger was amputated and the middle finger was lacerated.
2017-04-24AuroraIllinoisFGS-PRECISE, LLC Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning the ink reservoir on a printing press and the rag he was using was pulled into the rollers along with his hand. The tip of the employee's right pinky finger was amputated.
2017-04-04LancasterNew YorkAlco Plastics, Inc.Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a printing press and amputated two fingertips in the rollers while removing debris from a roller.
2017-04-03ChannelviewTexasTex-Trude LPFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
The injured employee was cleaning the lower plates of a printing press with a towel wrapped around his right hand. A second employee was cleaning/setting up the upper portion of the press. The injured employee's hand was pulled into the press, due to the towel; partially amputating his right thumb and crushing the right ring finger.
2017-03-23PewaukeeWisconsinBerry Plastics CorporationArm(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning a printing press when his right arm was caught and fractured in a roller.
2017-03-20YorkPennsylvaniaYork Wallcovering IncorporatedForearm(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was operating a printing press when he attempted to clean debris from the press wheel. His hand was pulled into the rollers, and he suffered damaged nerves and swelling in his left arm up to the elbow.
2017-02-01HamiltonOhioInnovative SolutionsHand(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
On 2/1/17, an employee was operating the printing press when his left hand was pulled into a pinch point. The employee was hospitalized due to his injury.
2017-01-21Franklin ParkIllinoisGraph-Pak CorporationFingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
On January 21, 2017, an employee was using a rag to clean grease off a printing press when the rag became caught in the machine. A moving part then pulled the employee's left index finger into the machine, amputating the fingertip. The machine was not locked/tagged out at the time.
2016-08-11FindlayOhioBall CorporationFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
On or about August 11, 2016, an employee was adding ink to the decorator can printing machine when the ink fell. When the employee attempted to grab it, the employee's hand became caught between the plate cylinder and the blanket segment, amputating the left ring finger.
2016-08-05ColumbusOhioQG Printing II Corp.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was mounting plates on a printing press when his left ring fingertip was caught between the plates, partially amputating the soft tissue.
2016-06-26SecaucusNew JerseyRR DonnelleyFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was inching paper through a printing feed to clear a tear when the blade advanced on his finger. The skin was removed from his right middle finger, requiring surgery.
2016-06-16Jersey CityNew JerseyDG3 NORTH AMERICA INC.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
While operating a printing machine, an employee attempted to clear a paper jam. This employee's pinky finger was crushed by the machine's elevator, requiring surgery.
2016-06-09RochesterNew YorkJAMESTOWN CONTAINER CORPORATIONHand(s) and finger(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was repositioning a piece of cardboard over the vacuum holes of a printing press when the piece was drawn into the machine. His left hand was also pulled in, de-gloving the top of the hand and amputating the index finger.
2016-05-08LolitaTexasInteplast Group LtdFingertip(s)Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was working on a printing press and pinched a finger resulting in a fingertip amputation.
2016-05-07TylerTexasHood Packaging CorporationFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
In the printing department, an employee's right hand, third and fourth fingers were amputated while operating a flexographic press.
2016-03-24HebronOhioRR DonnelleyFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was webbing the paper through the printing press perf and anvil cylinder. The employee indexed the cylinders while holding the lead edge of the paper in the gap which drew the finger in, pinching it between two cylinders. The employee's right index finger was amputated.
2016-03-09Saint CharlesMissouriRX SYSTEMS, INCFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was loading paper into a printing press when the press did not move the paper along as designed. The employee jogged the machine and turned it off and then on, attempting to get the paper to move along. The employee's left index finger was caught in the machine, amputating the first digit of the finger.
2016-03-05OwensvilleMissouriRR DonnelleyFingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee's fingertip was amputated while working on the printing press. The machine was running at the time of the incident.
2016-02-17OmahaNebraskaHood Packaging, Inc.Chest, except internal location of diseases or disordersCompressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was placing printing cylinders into storage and got caught between the hand cart and guard railing resulting in broken ribs.
2016-01-12LeavenworthKansasHallmark Cards Inc.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was using a scouring pad to clean the rubber pressure and printing rollers on a printing press. The machine was running at the time. The employee got caught in the nip point between the rubber pressure roller and the printing roller and was hospitalized with two broken fingers. Surgery had to be performed.
2015-12-07RochesterNew YorkJAMESTOWN CONTAINER CORPORATIONHand(s) and finger(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was adjusting a printing plate and got his hand caught in a pinch point between two rollers when another employee jogged the machine using the registration button. The employee suffered three broken fingers and a degloving injury to the right palm.
2015-11-12MasonOhioW&S Packaging LLCArm(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
On or about November 12, 2015, an employee's arm was pulled into the spindle on a printing press when her glove got caught. She broke two bones in her right arm.
2015-09-11SyracuseNew YorkHANSEN QPElbow(s)Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
On 9/11/15, employees were washing the print roller at the end of a shift. An employee bumped the right elbow on the diamond plate platform of the printing press; skin was not broken. The employee went golfing the next day and the elbow was swollen. The employee was hospitalized with an infection in the right elbow.
2015-09-03PawtucketRhode IslandInternational Packaging CorporationFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
On or about 9/3/15, a temp worker injured her finger while operating a printing machine in the Cardboard Box Department. Part of her finger had to be amputated.
2015-08-25LyndhurstNew JerseyOmega Plastics CorporationFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning the rubber plates on the printing press and crushed three fingers between the printing cylinders. The machine was running at the time and was not locked out.
2015-08-23LincolnNebraskaJournal Star Printing Co.Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee amputated the fingertips of the right thumb, index and middle fingers while cleaning the rollers on a printing press. The machine was running at the time of the incident.
2015-08-21FalconerNew YorkJamestown Container Corporation Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee pulled Printing Section # 1 out of the Martin Machine and opened the interlocked cover on the ink rollers. He then took a pair of vise-grips, depressed the jog button, and clamped the button to the housing in the depressed position causing the rollers to rotate slowly. The employee then used a hose to spray water on the partially submerged ink rollers to clean them. The inside of the container in which the rollers were partially submerged was painted black. The color of the ink was
2015-07-28Glen EllynIllinoisM & R Printing Equipment, Inc.Fingertip(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
On July 28, 2015 and approximately at 1:30 p.m., a welder was operating a milling machine in the machine shop to fabricate two sheet metal pieces for a printing press (screen printing industry). His left hand middle fingertip became caught in the two sheet metal pieces and a running drill bit of the equipment.
2015-07-13Oklahoma CityOklahomaQUAD/GRAPHICS, Inc.Leg(s)Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
An employee operating a hand controlled forklift to remove pallets from a printing press fractured a leg when his leg was caught between the moving lift and a stationary I-beam guard.
2015-07-07ToledoOhioPrintexcelFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee suffered an amputation of his right middle finger while setting up a printing press on or about July 7, 2015.
2015-06-29UnionIllinoisBAG MAKERS, INC.Finger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
On Monday June 29, 2015, at approximately 10:30 p.m., two maintenance employees were servicing a FLEXO press no. 9 in the FLEXO department. The FLEXO press no. 9 feeds bags for in-printing on the roller. The employee was tightening the driver side chain on the press and then proceeded to check the tension with his right hand to see if it was tight enough. The employee's right hand index finger became caught in the chain and sprocket pinch point resulting in a fracture injury. It is unknown at th
2015-06-09HicksvilleNew YorkCoral Graphic Services Inc.Hand(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee partially amputated his right hand while operating a Steinemann printing press.
2015-06-04Carol StreamIllinoisAmerican Litho, IncorporatedFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was "webbing" a printing press when two of the employee's left-hand fingers got pinched by a unit roller.
2015-04-21ChicagoIllinoisAmerican Labelmark CompanyFinger(s), fingernail(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
On April 21, 2015, an employee operating a printing press sustained an injury to the right ring finger while attempting to clear a jam resulting in an amputation.