Incident date: 2016-12-30
NAICS industry code: 311513

An employee was performing sanitation duties on a machine. The employee removed piping to clean a valve inside. The air source to the machine was not locked out. While cleaning the valve, it actuated and caught her finger. She was hospitalized and the finger may be amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate