Incident date: 2018-12-07
NAICS industry code: 611519

An employee was unclogging a drain using a rotary cable. The cable snapped back and hit the employee's left hand, causing a laceration to his left middle finger and a partial amputation to the  ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Augers, plumbing snakes-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high