Incident date: 2018-09-05
NAICS industry code: 561311

An employee was overseeing as a wire was being run through a machine when the wire became jammed. As he tried to help unjam it, the wire caught his left hand and amputated his upper left thumb.

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