Incident date: 2025-04-21
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was helping to dismantle a mobile crawler crane. Employees were separating boom sections. When the last pin was hammered out, the 40-foot boom section dropped 4-5 inches onto the injured employee's left foot. All five toes were amputated and the employee was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high