Incident date: 2024-03-25
NAICS industry code: 334511

An employee was on a pier mooring a small, rigid inflatable boat. Their fingers were caught between the boat recovery line and the pier piling when the recovery line came under significant strain due to rough seas, resulting in a severe laceration to the left index finger and medical amputation of the left middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Motorboat, motorized yacht
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high