Incident date: 2024-05-08
NAICS industry code: 221210

An employee was decoupling a motor from a compressor and removing the shim pack to perform diagnostics. The employee's finger was inside the shim pack to ensure it wasn't binding against itself when another contractor employee rolled the compressor. The shim pack rolled simultaneously and the flywheel amputated the top of the employee's right index finger.

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: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high