Incident date: 2019-12-04
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee and a coworker were spooling up a steel cable on a winch line when the employee's hand was caught between the sheave and the cable, resulting in the surgical amputation of the right index finger and surgical repair of the third digit.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high