Incident date: 2024-11-19
NAICS industry code: 237310

A crew was working on assembling/disassembling a crawler crane. The injured employee was removing the becket pin from the crane block. When the pin came out of the hole, the becket dropped onto his right middle fingertip, resulting in amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Fasteners  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high