Incident date: 2018-04-12
NAICS industry code: 325412

An employee was performing routine maintenance on a process vessel. While the employee was lowering the vessel head plate into position over the vessel, a member of the lifting mechanism unexpectedly shifted, causing the employee's right ring finger to become pinched between the mechanism and the head plate. The employee's finger was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high