Incident date: 2018-08-16
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee had changed a bearing on a fan (air handling unit) and was manually checking (rotating by hand) the tension of a drive belt he had reinstalled when his left hand was pulled between the motor and the drive belt pulley, resulting in a left ring finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Cooling and humidifying machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high