Incident date: 2024-10-15
NAICS industry code: 321918

On October 15, 2024, a utility employee was removing fiber from a drum on a 2-meter fiber line. The drum caught the employee's left thumb, resulting in a partial medical amputation at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Picking, carding, combing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high