Incident date: 2025-06-30
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was applying spreader hooks to hogs. A hog fell from the hook that he was holding upright and the hook lacerated a tendon in his left hand. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate