Incident date: 2025-01-14
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee and a crew were setting up a new utility pole. As the employee was lifting the pole to rotate it, his gloves became entangled between a chain sling and the pole, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger and a nondisplaced fracture of the middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Source, secondary source  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high