Incident date: 2016-09-28
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was using a crane to lift and move steel tubing onto a roller bed. The chain sling slipped from the crane hook as the tubing was being lowered and the employee's left thumb was pinched between the tubing and a steel beam that was in the roller bed. The employee's thumb was amputated just below the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high