Incident date: 2019-04-24
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was reaching out the front of a boom lift cab to remove something on the hood of the machine when his leg hit the controls, thus lowering the boom on his fingers at a pinch point. His right ring and pinky fingers were smashed, resulting in medical amputations of the fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high