Incident date: 2017-04-11
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was disassembling an 75-ton conventional truck crane. The employee was watching the cables as they moved through the sheaves. The employee removed a pin out of the boom and the boom dropped, pinning the employee to the ground. The employee's knees and ankles were crushed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
code_source: title: Cranes-truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and knee(s)
severity: moderate