Incident date: 2022-05-27
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was attempting to remove slack from a 5/8-inch steel lift cable that was attached to a pipe lying on the ground. As the employee approached to reposition the cable and get rid of slack in the line, the piping rolled slightly, creating tension in the line and pinching the employee's left middle and ring fingers between the cable and the pipe. The employee suffered two fingertip amputations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Wire, cables-nonelectrical
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high