Incident date: 2019-10-15
NAICS industry code: 325199

An employee was cleaning material from a screen located above a rotary valve when the employee's right index fingertip was caught in the rotary valve, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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