Incident date: 2025-05-24
NAICS industry code: 335912

An employee was demonstrating how to disassemble and reassemble a metal filter unit from the cathode powder transfer line. During the open/close operation of an automated valve, the employee s latex glove became caught. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the left index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Valves, nozzles
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high