Incident date: 2018-02-28
NAICS industry code: 311511

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on an actuator when an air fitting came out of the valve, causing the actuator to come down on the employee's right index finger. The employee suffered an amputation of the right index finger between the first and second knuckles.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Valves, nozzles
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high