Incident date: 2016-02-15
NAICS industry code: 311514

An employee was drying  the star valve with a paper towel when the machine turned on.  The valve rotated and sucked the towel and the employee's finger into the rotating equipment resulting in the amputation of the middle finger to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high