Incident date: 2018-11-02
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was rigging a 6-foot bundle of steel to be hoisted off a roof, approximately 105 feet high, with a crane. When the crane lifted the bundle off the roof, the employee's hand was caught in the wire rope sling. He suffered an amputation to the left index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high