Incident date: 2021-01-15
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was starting a generator by pulling a drawstring with a piece of wood attached to it when the drawstring was sucked back into the engine. The piece of wood struck the employee's left ring finger, resulting in amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Generators
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high