Incident date: 2020-10-19
NAICS industry code: 541690

Two employees were inspecting the hoist cable on an overhead crane. One employee was operating the crane while the injured employee inspected the hoist cable. The injured employee was feeling the cable while it was moving through his gloved right hand checking for burrs or distortion in the cable when his fingers were caught between the crane cable and the pully of the block. Two fingertips were amputated.

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