Incident date: 2022-11-14
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was loading vaults onto delivery carts. After hooking the hoist up to the vault, the employee pulled the hook down to the frame of the trailer. The employee's finger became caught between the hoist and the guard of the winch, resulting in an amputation of the tip of the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high