Incident date: 2022-02-15
NAICS industry code: 332312

Two employees were trying to retrieve a section of channel on the bottom of a stack of four. One placed a hook into the third piece of the stack and lifted the sections up while the other placed a block under the lifted sections. This second employee's left hand was still sitting on the block when the three sections of channel slipped off the hook and crushed the employee's fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Structural metal materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate