Incident date: 2024-08-23
NAICS industry code: 339115

An employee was checking the operation of a dust collector when they sustained a partial amputation to their right middle finger and a laceration to the index finger in a rotary valve on the machine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Cleaning machinery, appliances  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high