Incident date: 2019-05-07
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee had been sand blasting and removed a valve pipe plug when it became clogged. As the employee was removing material, air bled out of the system and caused the valve piston to shut and amputate the employee's left index fingertip.

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