Incident date: 2016-03-04
NAICS industry code: 332410

An employee was replacing a bearing in a space heater when his leather glove was caught at the edge of the separator bar (the rotating mechanism inside of the heater) as it turned. His right thumb was caught between the separator bar and the outer shroud (the heater's fan with a filtration system) and was amputated from the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Furnaces, heaters
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high