Incident date: 2018-03-21
NAICS industry code: 333515

An employee was pressing the safety latch on a hoist hook and lowering a sheet lifter when his left thumb was caught between the safety latch and eye hook of the sheet lifter.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Material and personnel hoists
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate