Incident date: 2020-08-12
NAICS industry code: 237310

On August 12, 2020, a mechanic was lubricating the boom cable of a crawler crane and caught his right hand between the cable and the sheave resulting in the amputation of his right middle, index and pinky fingers. He was hospitalized.

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