Incident date: 2022-06-09
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was using a chainsaw tool to guide a nylon rope back onto a winch when his left hand got caught in the winch. The employee sustained amputations up to the middle knuckles of the little, ring, and middle fingers. The little and ring fingers were reattached.

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