Incident date: 2016-02-11
NAICS industry code: 517919

A maintenance crew was fabricating and terminating an "EYE" splice on a tether. The injured employee was pulling a serving line trough a termination when the serving line wrapped around his right-hand middle fingertip. When he attempted to free his finger from the serving line, his right middle fingertip was severed at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Ropes, ties, chains, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high