Incident date: 2022-01-28
NAICS industry code: 325998

An employee was using a valve stem to slow the flow of chemicals from a railcar tanker to a truck tanker when his finger got caught between the valve stem and the railcar tank, resulting in a partial amputation.

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