Incident date: 2024-02-16
NAICS industry code: 322130

The injured employee was attempting to open a valve with a valve wrench. The wrench slipped and started to spin in the direction opposite of what the employee intended. The employee attempted to retrieve the wrench when the tip of his left middle finger was crushed between the valve and the wrench and was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Wrenches, ratchets
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high