Incident date: 2021-09-22
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was trimming a tree. When a tree branch was removed, the employee's left index finger was caught under a rope and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Rope, twine, string
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high