Incident date: 2019-11-08
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee was providing ground support and acting as a spotter when a steel wire that was being lifted drifted toward a boom cylinder. The employee was trying to stop it from striking a digger derrick when the employee's pinky and ring fingers were pinched between the wire wheel and the boom cylinder, resulting in partial amputations of both fingers.

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