Incident date: 2016-11-23
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was working from a 14-foot boom lift, setting up a wire pool and trying to place it in a sheave, when he lost control and his right arm was caught between the wire and the railing of the lift, breaking it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Elevators, hoists, aerial lifts, personnel platforms-except truck-mounted, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate