Incident date: 2016-02-05
NAICS industry code: 541614

An employee had completed performing maintenance work on a piece of equipment and was in the process of lowering the JLG with a crane. The thumb of his right hand was caught in the line that was being used to lower the JLG removing muscle and tissue. The employee was transported to the hospital where his thumb was removed above the knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Ropes, ties, chains, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high