Incident date: 2024-04-10
NAICS industry code: 541512

An employee was holding the ball of an air-actuated ball valve in place. The employee disconnected the air flow to the valve, causing the ball to rotate to the closed position and crush the employee's fingertip. The fingertip was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Valves, nozzles
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high