Incident date: 2024-07-12
NAICS industry code: 333923

During disassembly of a lattice boom crawler crane, an employee was guiding wire rope back to the drum through the sheaves. The wire rope pulled the employee's right hand into the sheave and his middle and ring fingers were caught between the wire rope and the sheave. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Cranes other mobile cranes
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high