Incident date: 2019-07-12
NAICS industry code: 325180

An employee was loading a truck. While positioning a steel chemical drum on a drum tipper apparatus, the drum slipped through the straps and pinched the employee's hand. The employee was hospitalized for a severe laceration to the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate