Incident date: 2023-10-26
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was transferring plastic pellets to a hopper. The valve shifted while the employee's hand was in the flow tube resulting in an amputation to the pad of the left middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Valves, nozzles
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high