Incident date: 2025-06-10
NAICS industry code: 238390

Three employees were pulling tension cable (similar to rebar) through the walls of a condo using a motor system. Two employees were needed to hold the cable while the third employee drilled the mounting locations. When the third employee activated the drill, the cables twisted. They caught the right index finger of one of the other two employees, amputating his fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in non-running object
code_source: title: Wire, cables nonelectrified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high