Incident date: 2020-07-20
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was lowering a bundle of PVC pipe links with a truck's tailgate when his hand was caught between the lift gate chain and the lift gate. His right index finger was fractured.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate