Incident date: 2016-05-24
NAICS industry code: 423320

An employee was watching the contractor crane up materials that had been taken from a truck when he noticed a tag line near the materials. He grabbed the tag line to move it to the side. As he grabbed it, the crane began the lift and the line became tangled in his hand, amputating his right index finger between the first and second digits.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Ropes, ties, chains, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high