Incident date: 2022-05-27
NAICS industry code: 221210

An employee was removing a nut on the main bearing in preparation to change out the main bearings on an engine. An engine main cap fell on his right thumb causing a crush injury that required medical amputation of the thumb to just behind the thumbnail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high