Incident date: 2021-01-08
NAICS industry code: 333132

An employee was using a rag to wipe down a 3/8-inch metal cable. A burr on the line grabbed the rag, causing the employee's right ring finger to be pulled into a sheave. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high