Incident date: 2025-03-26
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was performing maintenance on an air actuator and was working to clear a jam on a ball valve when the ball valve amputated their left index 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