Incident date: 2020-02-25
NAICS industry code: 423330

An employee was unloading shingles at a new construction job site. While trying to release a crane hook on the delivery vehicle, his left hand was caught in a pinch point between a spring loaded shackle and the track it rests on. The employee sustained partial amputations of the left middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high