Incident date: 2024-09-03
NAICS industry code: 562213

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a deflation fan, belt, and pulley. While working on the fan, the rotor in the fan unexpectedly began to spin due to the activation of a damper within the baghouse. The spinning of the fan caused a belt pulley to begin spinning, which made contact with the employee's hand, resulting in an amputation to the right middle fingertip.

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