Incident date: 2016-12-12
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was connecting a cable that had been looped around a pipe to hook the pipe onto an excavator bucket and lay it across the highway. As the excavator operator raised the boom, the employee's hand became caught between the cable and the hook, amputating his left index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high