Incident date: 2024-01-21
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was assisting with disassembling a 500-ton crane. The injured employee was pushing an outrigger while another employee pulled from the other side to stow the base of the outrigger. The injured employee's left ring finger became caught in the rail system, requiring surgical amputation at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Cranes  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high