Incident date: 2025-06-20
NAICS industry code: 423830

An employee was winching in the mid-section of a boom on an aerial lift into the base section when their left middle and ring fingers were pinched between the two sections of the boom subassembly. The employee sustained a displaced fracture of the middle phalanx of their left middle finger and the amputation of their left ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high