Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201115045 - Employee injured when burned by screen printing machine

Accident Summary Nr: 201115045 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 10/09/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
120314190	11/15/2002	3953	339943	Primal Screen Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 6:20 a.m. on October 9, 2002, Employee #1, working for Primal Screen, a silk screen printing shop, was functioning as a catcher on press number 5. The employee was standing in front of head number 1 of the automatic screen printing machine with her right arm extended close to the frame while it was warming up. The machine was a TAS 250RA series, pneumatic carousel automatic screen printing machine, Serial Number 250RA03. When the employee reached her right arm into the moving machine to clean the right side of the frame on head number 1, the moving carousel struck her arm and pushed it to the 590 degree Farenheit flash cure unit installed on head number 2 of the machine. The employee received a third degree burn on her right arm and was hospitalized.

Keywords: BURN, PRINTING PRESS, CLEANING, ARM, PRESS

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	120314190			Hospitalized injury	Burn/Scald(Heat)	Miscellaneous printing machine operators

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