Incident date: 2020-09-24
NAICS industry code: 333249

A cable operator was staging a reel into the payoff. As she was attempting to manually position the shaft into the hole, her right thumb was caught between the metal reel and the drive arm plate resulting in a below the nail bed thumb amputation without bone loss.

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