Incident date: 2018-07-11
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was helping to transfer a steel plate off a flatbed truck with an overhead crane. The rigging equipment was put under tension while the employee's left ring finger was between the shackle and the plate hook; the employee's fingertip was pinched and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high