Incident date: 2025-05-19
NAICS industry code: 531312

An employee was using an auger machine on an outside sewer line. While he was feeding metal rope into the sewer line, the rope came back and pulled his hand in, cutting his left middle finger. The finger was amputated from the distal joint to the tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Plumbing augers, snakes
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high