North Country Oil

Multiple employees were working to treat a bloated animal in a cattle pen. They put a head restraint on the animal. A chain attached to the head restraint device caught the injured employee's index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation around the fingernail area that required surgical amputation at the first knuckle.

Three employees were pulling tension cable (similar to rebar) through the walls of a condo using a motor system. Two employees were needed to hold the cable while the third employee drilled the mounting locations. When the third employee activated the drill, the cables twisted. They caught the right index finger of one of the other two employees, amputating his fingertip.

An employee was in an elevator pit working on the hoisting cables and compensator sheave. He moved the cables back onto the sheave groves. One of the cables spun, twisted out of the grove, grabbed his glove, and pulled his hand into the sheave. The tip of his right thumb was caught under a cable and was amputated approximately at the knuckle just below the nail.

An employee was opening a roll-up door when his glove was caught in the door's rope, resulting in a partial amputation to his right index fingertip.

An employee was lowering an above-head gate with chains while moving a cow into a lane. Their fingers got tangled in the chain as the gate dropped, resulting in a lacerated thumb and crushed index and middle fingers.