Incident date: 2015-04-27
NAICS industry code: 221119

Two employees were performing maintenance on a boom truck.  As employee one was coming down off the truck he placed his hand into the cradle where the boom rests.  Employee two did not see him and started to lower the boom resulting in the amputation of employee one's right middle  fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high