Incident date: 2016-04-13
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was helping to take a cable winch system down. The system had been used to pull a heat exchange bundle. The employee's hand was on a poly snatch block when the operator moved the cable. The employee's fingertip was caught between the cable and poly snatch block, resulting in a distal finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high