Incident date: 2017-10-09
NAICS industry code: 325998

An employee was trying to remove a stuck valve when the valve feeding apparatus broke and either the feeding machine mechanism or a chain broke and amputated the distal end of the employee's left ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high