Incident date: 2023-10-23
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was placing rolled angle iron into small bundles to be rigged for lifting to the scaffold.  The 1,166-pound bundle was secured with a set of 3-ton grade chain bridles. When the bundle was lifted from the ground by the telescopic boom truck crane, the employee's left middle finger was caught in a pinch point and crushed, which resulted in medical amputation at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high