Incident date: 2025-02-25
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was assisting a boom truck operator with hooking a lifting chain to a road plate. As the employee was attaching the chain from the road plate to the boom truck crane hook, the boom moved down and the employee s left little finger got caught in the chain. The employee suffered crush injuries and an amputation of the finger between the nail and the last knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Chains
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high