Incident date: 2020-04-21
NAICS industry code: 311513

An employee was attempting to remove an actuator pipe/valve combo that had fallen into a hopper with an auger when his arm triggered a sensor, causing a pneumatic valve to close on his right ring finger and amputate the fingertip. The auger was moving at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high