Incident date: 2024-09-05
NAICS industry code: 336211

An employee was using an overhead crane to set a complink into a rack. The front pin became stuck on the rack and would not go in. The employee let linkage off the crane and was manually moving the pin into place when his left index finger was pinched between the complink and the rack. The employee sustained an amputation to the top of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Source, secondary source  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high