Incident date: 2025-05-25
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was wiping oil off an engine radiator housing with a rag. The radiator fan sucked the rag through the shroud/guard along with three of the employee's fingers. The employee sustained amputations to his left index, middle, and ring fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high