Incident date: 2019-07-03
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was preparing to lift and move a 25-foot, 1,897-pound structural beam from a conveyor system with a crane. He was using a lifting chain to make the lift when the thumb on his left hand was caught between the chain and the structural beam, resulting in a thumb fracture.

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