Incident date: 2015-05-04
NAICS industry code: 326112

A maintenance employee was working on a crystallizer. The guard was removed, but the machine was not locked out. He reached into the discharge valve to grab material; the machine cycled, and a small area of his thumb above and behind the nail was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high