Incident date: 2022-12-06
NAICS industry code: 922140

An employee was performing maintenance on a sewer lift station. An electric winch was being used to lift the pump motor out of the lift station. The winch cable became kinked. As the employee was working to untangle the cable, his right little finger was pinched by the cable and pulley section of the winch resulting in a partial amputation.

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), unspecified
severity: high