Incident date: 2025-06-27
NAICS industry code: 331111

On June 27, 2025, around 2:00 a.m., a Charter Steel mechanical maintenance technician was changing the northeast wheel on the east outside billet yard crane. While the crane was locked out and lifted with a portable hydraulic device, the tech rotated the drive wheel by hand. The lifting device failed, causing the crane to fall and crush the employee s left-hand fingers against the crane wheel. This resulted in partial amputation of the middle and ring fingertips (through the nail with no bone loss) and a laceration with tendon involvement to the index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cranes  unspecified
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high