Incident date: 2024-02-21
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was hooking up chains to blocks on the crane arm. The employee slipped and tried to catch themself when their right hand was caught in the crane wires that then began to spin around the pulley. The employee sustained amputation of the right middle finger and lacerations to the ring and little fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level resulting in exposure or contact
code_source: title: Cranes  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high