Incident date: 2021-07-29
NAICS industry code: 321912

On 07/29/2021 at 1:15 a.m., an employee was attempting to respool a hoist cable when his glove became stuck to the cable, pulling his left hand into the hoist pulley and resulting in an amputation of the left index finger between the first and second knuckle.

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