Incident date: 2018-08-08
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was assembling valves on a filler machine when his left hand was caught between the valve housing and the valve opener, resulting in an amputation of his ring finger's first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high