Incident date: 2024-10-09
NAICS industry code: 522110

An employee was operating a riding lawn mower with a vacuum attachment. The employee noticed a loose sticker on the blower housing. As he pushed it back into place, his right middle finger pushed through it and into the moving parts inside the blower housing. He suffered a partial amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Lawn mower  riding
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high