Incident date: 2021-10-01
NAICS industry code: 562998

A crane operator was resetting a limit switch on an overhead crane. A cable and/or drum caught the operator's left leg, causing the operator to fall about 10 feet from the crane bridge. The employee's leg got entangled in the crane cables resulting in amputation of their left leg at the thigh. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: high