Incident date: 2023-04-03
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee was removing a rope reel from an electrical line that was being pulled for tension. The reel fell and struck his left hand; his hand was caught between the truck-mounted bucket and the reel. The employee's left little finger was crushed and the fingertip was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high