Incident date: 2025-03-10
NAICS industry code: 336370

At about 9:45 a.m. on March 10, 2025, an employee was using a 5-ton overhead crane to move a right-hand check fixture, weighing 5,150 pounds, in a coordinate-measuring machine lab. As the crane lifted the fixture, the metal sling securing the fixture slipped over the employee's left thumb. The thumb was crushed between the metal slip and fixture, and the last joint was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Cranes gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high