Incident date: 2018-03-01
NAICS industry code: 928110

On March 1, 2018, an employee was repairing a tank engine and revving it manually near an exposed turbo air inlet fan blade. The employee's right hand then came into contact with the rotating fan blade, amputating the index and middle fingers. The air intake was unguarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Engine, engine block, motor-vehicle
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high