Incident date: 2023-11-11
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was using an overhead crane to lift a bottom scraper (weighing over 1,200 pounds) off a machine table for fabrication purposes. While being lifted, the scraper rotated 90 degrees (from vertical to horizontal) and the employee's left hand was caught between the scraper and the nylon lifting straps. The left middle finger was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high