Incident date: 2017-09-15
NAICS industry code: 237310

On September 15, 2017, at approximately 7:00 a.m., an employee was operating a paint machine when the paint wand hose sprang a leak and began discharging paint at high pressure. He was attempting to grab the wand gun handle when his right index finger was struck by the high-pressure paint (2,000 PSI). His right index finger had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Paint
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high