Incident date: 2015-10-17
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was working to undo forms around a casting area using a gantry crane. The employee was holding on to the cables at the main block as the crane was raised and caught his fingers between the cables and the pulley causing an amputation of his pinky fingertip and a partial amputation of the right ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high