Incident date: 2020-05-05
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was lowering a transfer hose between two liquid cargo barges. The winch started to free-spool and the hand crank came out of its seat. The employee was putting the hand crank back in to stop the winch from free-spooling, when the gears on the winch caused a partial amputation of a finger on the right hand and a fracture.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high