Incident date: 2023-11-14
NAICS industry code: 311119

An employee cleared dust accumulation from the exhaust fan blades of a pellet cooler before cleaning the pellet cooler itself. As they were closing the inspection hatch to the airlock, the fan blade contacted three fingers on their right hand, resulting in a laceration to the index finger and fingertip amputations of the ring and middle fingers that required further amputation past the nailbed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high