Incident date: 2016-10-14
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was preparing to pick up a dumpster and empty it. As the employee was unhooking the winch line from the rear of the truck, the employee's hand was on the hook/line and he inadvertently activated the winch reel in control instead of the reel out.  The line tightened and caught his left middle fingertip between it and the truck body resulting in amputation at the first joint.

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