Incident date: 2016-07-05
NAICS industry code: 332812

Two employees were lowering a part from a mast of a ship. As the employees were lowering the part with a pulley and a tagline, the part got caught in something. The injured employee pulled hard on the tagline, cutting the line and the part fell on his right index finger resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Parts and materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high