Incident date: 2015-05-22
NAICS industry code: 325412

An employee was cleaning an actuator valve for an R&D project. He activated the valve, which opened it. When he then deactivated the valve, he did not remove his finger, and the valve caught his fingertip. He pulled his finger away, removing the pinky fingertip skin on his left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high