Incident date: 2020-10-06
NAICS industry code: 236116

An employee was watching cable being pulled into a bored passage. He lost his balance, and his right ring finger was caught by a cable being drawn through a machine wheel. The cable pulling block partially amputated the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Other material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high