Incident date: 2022-07-25
NAICS industry code: 238290

At 9:00 a.m. on July 25, 2022, two employees were on the top of an elevator car checking for oil on the ropes. The car began to descend. One employee reached down to grab a rag and the elevator ropes pulled his hand into the sheave. He suffered multiple finger lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate