Incident date: 2019-12-21
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was erecting a tower crane when a beam attached to the ballast tower base folded onto the employee's left hand, crushing it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cranes-tower, self-erecting, portal, pillar, hammerhead
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: high