Incident date: 2017-10-11
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was cleaning a spray gun. He had mineral spirits in the gun and was adjusting the spray tip when the gun shot the mineral spirits into the skin on one of his fingers. The finger was surgically removed and the employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Naphtha solvents
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high