Incident date: 2015-03-11
NAICS industry code: 331522

An employee was hospitalized and had his right thumb amputated after his hand was injured in the cooling fan of a chiller unit he was troubleshooting.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate