Incident date: 2015-05-07
NAICS industry code: 488320

On May 7, 2015, at approximately 6:15 a.m., an employee fractured his left hand and was hospitalized. The employee was securing a barge to a stationary cell near the river's edge. To tie the barge off to the cell, the employee pulled the ring away from the cell. His finger/hand got pinched between the barge and the ring, which was level with the barge.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Barge
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate