Incident date: 2019-01-28
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was cleaning the rotary valve of a machine when his right middle and ring fingers were caught in the valve. The employee was hospitalized and both fingers were amputated to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high