Incident date: 2019-07-05
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was cleaning a condenser coil on a rooftop unit. The access plate slipped while the employee was reinstalling it, and the employee's hand went into the unit's fan blade. The employee suffered severe lacerations to the right thumb, index, and middle finger and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate