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Accident: 100219.015 - Employee Amputates Two Fingers When Reaching Into Machine

Accident: 100219.015 -- Report ID: 0111100 -- Event Date: 10/19/2017
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
1273338.01510/26/2017Northeast Packaging Company
At 10:30 p.m. on October 19, 2017, an employee was printing bags for a customer' s order and reached into the machine to see if there was ink on the press. The employee caught his ring finger and pinky between rollers and degloved them.
Keywords: amputated, amputation, caught in, finger, lockout/tagout, roller--mach/part
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature
1 1273338.015 38 M Hospitalized injury

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