Incident date: 2016-11-18
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was part of a rigging crew tasked with using an overhead 8-ton crane to move a heat exchanger through two columns. The employee pushed the exchanger through by hand and it swung back and struck the employee's left index finger and thumb. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate