Incident date: 2017-09-16
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was cleaning an energized air compressor and sustained an avulsion injury to his right hand that required hospitalization and surgery to repair.  The belt and pulley guard was not in place at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Air compressors
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate