Incident date: 2015-04-20
NAICS industry code: 327390

During a cast and mold cement job, an employee was trying to remove a tension cable.  The employee's glove got caught and while attempting to remove his hand, the employee's fingertip was injured.  The employee was hospitalized and the fingertip was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Wire, cables-nonelectrical
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high