Incident date: 2015-06-26
NAICS industry code: 336111

An employee was transferring a hoist in need of repairs from the I beam that it worked on to a rail attached to a crane. While disconnecting the two I beams, the rail jumped up, striking the support for the permanent rail and amputating the employee's third distal joint of the thumb on the left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high