Incident date: 2025-05-20
NAICS industry code: 334413

An employee was greasing the belt of an air handler and manually moving the belt when their left ring finger was caught between the belt and the pulley. The employee sustained a severe laceration to the fingertip that resulted in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high