Incident date: 2023-05-15
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was pulling a synthetic winch line out of the winch rollers to attach to limbs and debris so that they could be dragged toward the chipping area. The employee's right hand was caught in winch rollers, resulting in a right ring finger fracture and lacerations to the right middle and index fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate