Incident date: 2019-04-16
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was helping his work crew perform maintenance on furnace slide valves. While the valve components and hardware were being disassembled, the employee's right middle finger was caught between the flange's slide plate and blind. The tip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Valves, nozzles
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high