Incident date: 2023-08-10
NAICS industry code: 333993

An employee was feeding a borescope camera into the inlet port of a liquid ring vacuum pump to take internal pictures. The camera was passing through a ball valve when the valve closed on his finger and the borescope. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Pumps
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high