Incident date: 2024-10-21
NAICS industry code: 324110

An employee was setting up a crane and reconfiguring the articulating boom head. The employee manually lifted the boom to pivot and pin it into a different position when their left index finger was pinched between the crane and the sheave. The employee suffered a fractured finger that required a surgical partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Cranes  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high