Incident date: 2025-06-02
NAICS industry code: 332312

A maintenance employee was working on the fan of an evaporative cooler and was placing a part into the fan assembly when the running fan blade struck his left hand. The employee was hospitalized with a hand laceration and fractures. He required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Air conditioning units
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate