Incident date: 2025-08-09
NAICS industry code: 238210

Employees were standing outside of a manhole and pulling a rope through an underground conduit using a telehandler. They were using mule tape tied to the electrical line at one end and the telehandler at the other. The employee noticed the mule tape was slipping off the forks of the telehandler and he grabbed it. The mule tape wrapped around his left index finger and constricted, resulting in amputation of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport powered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high