Incident date: 2022-01-04
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was on a delivery truck, rigging bridge beams to be unloaded. The employee was on a beam, connecting the shackle of the rigging to the beam, when the beam and the employee's left ring finger were caught between the 35-ton shackle and the lifting eye. The finger was crushed from the fingertip to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate