Incident date: 2022-03-22
NAICS industry code: 336510

An employee was installing a diffuser in a blower on a lift table. The lift table's shaft got stuck; the employee was checking the air system when the table released and moved, crushing the employee's right ring finger against the blower. The employee underwent a medical amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Fans, blowers-wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high