Incident date: 2017-05-02
NAICS industry code: 532490

While spooling a winch, an employee's glove was caught on the winch cable, which pulled the employee's right middle finger into the winch and amputated it below the second knuckle.

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