Incident date: 2025-05-20
NAICS industry code: 311111

On May 20, 2025, an employee was in a one-person aerial lift to take an environmental swab near an exhaust fan mounted in an exterior wall approximately 15 feet high. As they were taking the sample, the swab was pulled into the fan along with the employee's right hand, resulting in amputations of the thumb and the index and middle fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Fans, blowers wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Thumb(s) and finger(s)
severity: high