Incident date: 2016-05-26
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was helping to perform maintenance on an elevator and was handing a mechanic a wire cable when the cable became caught on the elevator, amputating the employee's right arm and lacerating the leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: high