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Accident Summary Nr: 144515.015 - Employee amputates fingertip when struck by printer heat sea

Accident Summary Nr: 144515.015 -- Report ID: 0950644 -- Event Date: 09/23/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1565262.015	10/05/2021		541860	Harvard Label Llc

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.

Keywords: 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

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1565262.015	36	F	Non Hospitalized injury		Miscellaneous printing machine operators

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