Incident date: 2024-03-23
NAICS industry code: 517311

An employee was maneuvering a telecommunications cable across a road. A truck, driving toward him, hit the line. This caused it to tighten around his left thumb and amputated it. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in non-running object
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high