Incident date: 2024-09-25
NAICS industry code: 238120

Employees were at a roadside while re-organizing pieces of equipment on a trailer in preparation for highway travel. The boom of a telescopic crane was performing an outward telescoping motion, causing an employee's fingers to get caught between a sling and a shackle. The employee sustained degloving injuries to multiple fingers on their right hand. They also sustained amputation of the little finger and partial amputations to the middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Cranes  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high