Incident date: 2025-06-16
NAICS industry code: 238210

At about 2:30 p.m. on June 16, 2025, an aerial lineman was stringing aerial strand (wire braided rope) from span to span along power poles. A D-ring flipped on a bucket arm, causing the strand to push against the employee's right ring finger and trap it against the bucket gate. The fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Wire, cables nonelectrified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high