Incident date: 2016-11-14
NAICS industry code: 336212

An employee was using an overhead crane to unload wooden floor boards onto the sub-assembly of a tractor-trailer frame when his left middle fingertip was caught between a load spreader bar and a sub-assembly cross member, requiring medical 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