Incident date: 2018-01-24
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee and his crew were connecting a float hose and a head section (floating pipeline for hydraulic dredge). He was tying a 2-inch polypropylene line from the dredge tender to the pontoon tank when his left ring and pinky fingers were caught and amputated between the line and the bit.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle
code_source: title: Water vehicle, n.e.c
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high