Incident date: 2015-12-06
NAICS industry code: 339999

While troubleshooting a jam on a crystallizer machine, an employee's left-hand middle and ring fingertips were amputated by the rotary airlock. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high