Incident date: 2024-08-02
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was using a tugger to pull heavy electrical wire at a site when their gloved left hand was pulled through the tugger and caught in a pinch point on the equipment. The employee sustained amputations of their ring and little fingertips to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Other material and personnel handling machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high