Periodical Publishers

Industry Summary

Suffering major job losses, employees within the Periodical Publishers industry have got to be on edge. With 2015 employment numbers coming in at 98,999, The industry has seen a decline of -3.86%. This change put 3,979 folks onto the unemployment line. Over the past 5 years this industry has recorded an accident rate of over 2 times (-100% more) the average for the Newspaper Periodical Book and Directory Publishers Industry.

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On Thursday, December 21st 2017 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Des Moines, IA at Active Interest Media Inc.. A 29 year old man working as a Miscellaneous woodworking machine operator was injured on the job when the employee sustained partial amputation to thumb on table saw b

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OSHA ID101919.015

Accident Date2017-09-22

Accident DegreeNon Hospitalized injury

NarrativeAt 8:00 a.m. on September 22, 2017, Employee #1 was cutting wooden board into strips, using a Powermatic 66 table saw. The board became pinched between the blade and the fence. The employee reached over the saw blade to the other side of the board, just as the the blade jumped. Employee #1 sustained an amputation to the distal tip of his right thumb.

OSHA investigators arrived in Santa Fe Springs, CA on Wednesday, November 3rd 2010 and began an accident investigation which had occured previously at J S Paluch Company Inc. A employee working as a employee was injured on the job when the employee's finger was lacerated operating a printing press

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OSHA ID202477063

Accident Date2010-09-07

Accident DegreeNon Hospitalized injury

NarrativeAt approximately 2:20 p.m. on September 7, 2010, Employee #1 was working in a pr inting press area operating a 5-color lithographic printing press. He was in the process of setting up Press Number 2 and was running it in a slower speed than full production speed. He was making adjustments to the color keys when his righ t index finger was caught in the inbound rollers. Employee #1's right index fing er was lacerated.