Incident date: 2018-08-01
NAICS industry code: 327420

An employee was dumping a 50-pound bag of solid particulate into a dump station. The employee's left hand contacted a butterfly valve in the bottom of the station. The valve was activated, and the employee's middle and ring fingers were amputated below the fingernail. The valve was not guarded with a screen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high