Incident date: 2020-11-19
NAICS industry code: 561312

An employee was rotating the rotor of a wind turbine tower. The employee's right index finger was caught by the turbine rotor disc and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Windmills, wind turbines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high