Incident date: 2018-10-25
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was attempting to troubleshoot and repair a compressor blower in the rail yard and removed a filter using a hex head wrench. His left hand was inside the filter housing's air intake shaft when his middle fingertip came in contact with rotating rotors, resulting in a partial amputation of the left third distal phalanx. The compressor blower was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high