Incident date: 2019-12-09
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was attempting to locate the cause of a noise in the cooling fan of a piece of lab equipment. The employee was tapping the fan blade when his right index finger was caught in the blade, causing a fingertip amputation. The fan's cover was removed at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Product testing, inspecting, and diagnostic machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high