Incident date: 2022-08-20
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was investigating a jammed garage door on a storage shed. One of the two door cables had come off the pulley; the other was stuck. When the tension was released on the stuck cable, it fell off the pulley, pulled taut around the employee's right thumb, and amputated half to three-quarters of an inch from the tip. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Garage doors
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high