Incident date: 2019-11-24
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was attaching a steel cable for rigging a steel beam when the steel cable slid, pinching and amputating the thumb at the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Wire, cables-nonelectrical
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high