Incident date: 2015-07-16
NAICS industry code: 922140

An employee inside the penitentiary was greasing the motor on an air handling fan. His fingers got caught between a pulley and belt, resulting in three-quarter fingertip amputation and small lacerations to his other fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Fans, blowers-wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high