Incident date: 2024-11-27
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on an exhaust fan on the roof of the engine room. When the employee removed the lid to the exhaust fan, his hand slipped and contacted the belt inside the fan. The tip of his left ring finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Fans, blowers wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high