Incident date: 2022-03-04
NAICS industry code: 238990

On March 4, 2022, an employee was attaching 20-foot endless round slings from a load block to a 10-ton counterweight. While the employee was attempting to straighten the outer sheath of the rigging, the load block moved and their left hand was caught between the block and the counterweight, resulting in fingertip amputations of the ring and middle fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Cranes-other mobile cranes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high