Incident date: 2015-05-21
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee was lowering a fire hose off of the side of a ship using a rope when the rope became tangled around his index finger, amputating it at the first knuckle. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Rope, twine, string
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high