Incident date: 2024-12-29
NAICS industry code: 335991

An employee was accessing a rotary airlock to clean it out when their fingers were caught by the star valve as it was rotating. The employee sustained amputations of their left middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high