Incident date: 2025-06-06
NAICS industry code: 311615

On June 6, 2025, at approximately 9:33 PM, a maintenance employee was placing the chain back on a drive wheel of a shackle line when the chain hoist/come along he was using detached from its anchorage point. His right little finger was crushed between the chain hoist/come along and the guard for the drive wheel. The employee sustained an open fracture and partial amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other propelled object or substance  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high