Incident date: 2021-07-06
NAICS industry code: 517919

On July 6, 2021, an employee was crossing a road, holding a 1/4-inch telecommunications strand cable with his left arm. A truck sped through the traffic stop, and the cable became tangled in its rear tires. The cable amputated the employee's left arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: high