Incident date: 2019-07-16
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was pulling the pull cord on a generator. The cord jumped and wrapped around his right hand, then retracted and pulled the hand in, causing an abrasion across the hand and an abrasion on the index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Generators
code_nature: title: Abrasions, scratches
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate