Incident date: 2018-04-26
NAICS industry code: 211112

An employee was cleaning out a piston on a chemical pump and amputated the right index finger to the fingernail in a pinch point between the piston and the cylinder.

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