Incident date: 2017-11-08
NAICS industry code: 332312

On November 8, 2017, an employee was starting to lift a steel I-beam that was wrapped with a steel chain and hooked onto a crane. The employee was holding the pendant and pressed the "Up" button on the crane. As he started to lift the I-beam, his left ring finger was caught and partially amputated between the steel chain and the hook.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high