Incident date: 2020-02-24
NAICS industry code: 333912

An employee was installing a valve on a compressor cylinder. The valve flipped and as the employee tried to stop it, his hands were caught in a pinch point causing amputation of the middle, ring, and pinky fingertips on the right hand. The employee was hospitalized and the fingertips were reattached.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Containers-pressurized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high