Incident date: 2015-08-10
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was performing maintenance on a crane. He removed a pin that retained the dead end of the wire rope.  His finger entered the hole where the pin was and the rope shifted causing an amputation of his right index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high