Incident date: 2022-09-09
NAICS industry code: 327320

An employee was attempting to remove a clog in a butterfly valve when the valve closed on the employee's left hand, resulting in an amputation to the 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), unspecified
severity: high