Incident date: 2016-03-10
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was helping his foreman crank an electrical generator. The generator's pull starter started whipping around and broke off from the motor's plastic cover. As he tried to turn off the kill switch, the pull starter wrapped around his left thumb and amputated it. He was wearing leather gloves at the time of the incident.

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