Incident date: 2017-07-18
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was trying to lower a tower on a light plant when the cable came out of the pulley and created slack. As the employee tried to put the cable back in the pulley, the cable snagged the employee's glove and pulled it into the pulley, amputating the first digit of the employee's right pinky 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), n.e.c.
severity: high