Incident date: 2016-07-02
NAICS industry code: 331221

An employee was remotely controlling a crane to move concrete barricades in the coil yard. The rebar handle on a concrete barricade failed, causing the crane's chain rigging to whip up, hitting the employee in the hand. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the left ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high