Incident date: 2018-05-30
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was trying to repair the winch line on a crane. The cable on the winch got twisted. The injured employee was on the base of the boom and was holding the cable from an access hole when the boom retracted all the way back smashing his right middle finger. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high