Incident date: 2024-05-08
NAICS industry code: 327211

An employee was installing a blower part to a flat glass machine. There was a jack under the blower and a 2 x 6 was under the jack. The employee was holding the 2 x 6 and operating the jack when the top of the jack caught on a flange and the blower slipped off the top of the jack. The tip of the employee's left thumb was crushed between the blower and the wood and it was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Fan and turbine parts
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high