Incident date: 2019-02-28
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was stringing new rope from a drum onto a pulling machine. The rope started to veer off to one side; the employee was pushing the pulling block back into place with his right hand when his neoprene glove was pulled into the block. The skin on his right thumb tip was torn.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate