Worker Hurt at Asbury Park (NJ) Press Printing Plant

A pressroom employee was reaching up “to grab something” and got his hand caught in the presses at the Asbury Park Press printing plant on Willow Brook Road in New Jersey, according to Tom Merkel, assistant pressroom foreman.

Joe Gaire, 52, of Freehold, N.J., suffered a serious injury at 4:45 p.m. Thursday after getting his hand caught between the roller and cylinder of a press that was being set up for printing, Merkel said.