Incident date: 2024-07-18
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee was vacuuming a rotary valve system. Believing that a piece of the vacuum had fallen off into the rotary valve, he was retrieving the piece when the system actuated and amputated his left middle finger.

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