Incident date: 2016-04-19
NAICS industry code: 332911

On 4-19-16, an employee suffered the amputation of the distal tip of the left index finger. The tip was reattached and there was no bone separation. The injured worker placed his hand inside of a valve port to move metal shavings out of the way so that he would not damage the finish cut of a compressor. The injured worker is not sure if the shavings cut his finger or if it was the rotation of the bore mill machine that cut his finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Valves, nozzles
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high