Incident date: 2023-02-10
NAICS industry code: 335311

An employee moved three pieces of material (weighing 290 pounds each) with a 5-ton overhead gantry crane, using a choker hitch. He then started the lowering process to place the load on top of a wooden dunnage board that was on the floor. His left hand was in between the material when the material buckled inward, crushing and amputating his left middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high