A HIGHLY qualified tradesman left unemployed after suffering a gruesome injury on the worksite of a Crystalbrook hotel on the Cairns Esplanade has launched a massive $3.7m claim as he struggles to care for his young family. Elliott Outman, 35, was working as a crane rigger on the Flynn hotel site being run by Prime Constructions in May 2018 when he became impaled on a metal rod protruding from the floor. The thin rod went into his leg, through his hip and into his abdomen, missing his femoral artery - and near certain death - by just 5mm and also narrowly missing his bladder and kidneys.