Incident date: 2019-01-30
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was attempting to load a shaft onto a flatbed truck using an overhead crane. The pull chain got stuck in the hook on the chain fall. The employee reached up to free the pull chain and his right ring finger was pinched between the chain on the overhead crane and the chain fall resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high