Incident date: 2024-05-30
NAICS industry code: 322130

An employee was removing a hard salt cake plug in a rotary dust valve on a precipitator in the utilities department. Their left ring fingertip was amputated by the rotary dust valve.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Separating and conversion machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high