Incident date: 2019-01-08
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was wearing cloth gloves while holding a 50-pound concrete brace that was attached to a wall panel being lifted by a 200,000-pound capacity crane. The concrete brace moved toward his left pinky finger, and it was caught between the concrete brace and the brace foot, resulting in a finger amputation above the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Parts and materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high