Incident date: 2018-06-04
NAICS industry code: 326220

An employee was attempting to wind a hose onto a pneumatically actuated drum. While tying a knot onto the hose with string, the pneumatic drum actuated and applied tension to the string. The employee's finger was caught in the string as it tightened, amputating the flesh off his index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Rope, twine, string
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high