Incident date: 2024-06-13
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was operating the controls of a boom truck used to move concrete panels. As the employee was operating the outrigger lever to bring the legs in from the truck, he saw a hose that was going to get pinched by the legs. While grabbing the hose, his left thumb was pinched by the outrigger leg, resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Boom truck, cherry picker
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high