Incident date: 2022-03-23
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was rigging a load to be lifted by a tower crane at a construction site. When the crane lifted the load, his left ring finger was caught between the load and the rigging and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Cranes-tower, self-erecting, portal, pillar, hammerhead
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high