Incident date: 2025-08-28
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was cleaning and assembling a pipe that contains a transfer valve. The transfer valve was actuated while his finger was in the path of the valve's plunger, resulting in amputation of his fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Valves, nozzles
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high