Incident date: 2022-07-14
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was using a hand winch to open a door on a trommel machine. The cable came off the pulley. The employee was manually placing the cable back onto the pulley when his right index fingertip was amputated in a pinch point.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high