Incident date: 2018-06-12
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was operating an overhead crane inching a hoisted cylinder into place on a material handler with their left hand placed on the cylinder. When the hoisted cylinder slid into place on the material handler, the tip of the employee's left middle finger was pinched between the cylinder and the material handler's stabilizer bracket and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high