Incident date: 2019-03-27
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was holding a butterfly valve to adjust it prior to installation. The injured employee asked a second employee to apply compressed air to the valve. When the compressed air was applied, the valve actuated to the closed position, pinching the injured employee's left thumb tip between the disk and the valve body. The employee suffered a laceration/amputation to the left thumb above the knuckle.

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