Incident date: 2015-02-17
NAICS industry code: 333921

While repairing an elevator's counterweight, the mechanic isolated the counterweight by wedging a tool under it. The wedging tool dislodged, the counterweight moved, and the mechanic got his hand caught by the moving cable into the guard of the sheave. The incident de-gloved his hand and caused the skin to be ripped from the bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: high