# Cuts, lacerations at JBT AeroTech
> OSHA SIR `2018010032` · 1/2/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** JBT AeroTech
- **Location:** Terminal C, N Terminal Rd, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77032
- **NAICS:** 335311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had to go inside an HVAC unit to conduct troubleshooting and repairs. The employee shut off power to the HVAC unit and entered it. The employee placed a hand on the box, which slipped off. The employee s hand then contacted the HVAC unit s belt and pulley, suffering a laceration and tissue damage to the right index finger and small cuts to the middle and ring fingers. The employee was hospitalized. The HVAC unit was not locked/tagged out and the blower unit had not come to a complete stop at the time of the incident.

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