Incident date: 2016-01-21
NAICS industry code: 311991

A maintenance employee was rebuilding a valve, using air pressure to compress and seat a spring into place. The air pressure came off and the valve spring released. The employee's left-hand fingers were pinched between the spring and valve housing port, partially amputating a fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Valves, nozzles
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high