Incident date: 2025-04-22
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was fixing the motor for cooling tower fans. He was freeing up the seized motor by rocking the belt back and forth. The motor released and the employee's left thumb was pinched between the motor and the belt, resulting in an amputation to the tip of the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Cooling and humidifying machinery, appliances  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high